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

To: Sergey Tovpeko <tsv.devel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen VGA graphics passthru wiki page
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:45:04 +0200
Cc: "Mr. Teo En Ming \(Zhang Enming\)" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, weidong.han@xxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:24:09PM +0300, Sergey Tovpeko wrote:
> Good idea, about wiki!
>
> I'm experimenting with AMD (Six-Core Opteron CPU, RD890 Chipset) with  
> NVIDIA 8400 GS.
> All i did were
> * set 1:1 mapping between vBar and pBar
> * load nvidia's VGA BIOS from the binary file, flushed with nvflash.exe  
> utility.
>

Could you send the extra patches you used? Or was it the old patch from the
xen-devel archives? iirc vBar=pBar stuff still requires additional patch.

> And the video works in guest, i didn't see any special ussues related to  
> IOMMU-part.
>
> And i didn't see any mail, complaining that AMD hardware doesn't work  
> with GFX passthrough.

Ok. I have to update the wiki page.
Do you know what other available AMD chipsets support IOMMU?

-- Pasi

>> Hello,
>>
>> I just created this wiki page:
>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough
>>
>> Feel free to add/edit to make it better!
>>
>> I haven't tested VGA passthru myself (yet), so there might be some 
>> not-so-accurate information there.
>>
>> -- Pasi
>>
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