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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen VGA graphics passthru wiki page

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:59:59PM +0300, Sergey Tovpeko wrote:
> In fact, we got an engineer sample sometime ago with RD890 chipset
>
> lspci output:
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only dual  
> slot (2x16) PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02)
>
> And i tested VGA passthrough on RD890, not on SR5690/SR5670.  And it has  
> IOMMU inside.
>

Now I'm confused.. so SR5690/SR5670 wasn't tested after all? 

-- Pasi

>> Hello Pasi,
>>
>> It should have an iommu, but the mobo's are just on the market, haven't 
>> tested it myself.
>>
>> --
>> Sander
>>
>> Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 3:02:31 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:47:22AM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hello Sergey,
>>>>
>>>> Ah if i look at the spec sheets it's not a RD-890 chipset, but a opteron 
>>>> server chipset.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>> So is RD-890 still ok, aka it has IOMMU support? Has anyone tested it 
>>> with Xen? Should I remove RD-890 from the wiki pages?
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>>> http://www.tyan.com/datasheets/d_S8212.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Chipset:
>>>> AMD SR5690 + SP5100 (S8212WGM3NR/S8212GM3NR)
>>>> AMD SR5670 + SP5100 (S8212GM3NRLE/S8212GM3NR-LE))
>>>>
>>>> Nevertheless good to hear vga passthrough works for you.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>> Ok so I should add this one.. which one of the various models above 
>>> is your mb?     
>>
>>   
>>> -- Pasi
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Sander
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 11:33:21 AM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> Hello, Sander,
>>>>>         
>>>>>> Sergey, what specific brand/type mobo do you use ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> The motherboard is TYAN s8212.
>>>>>         
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>  Sander                            mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>       
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>

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