On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:38:30PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Is this something that should be noted on the Fedora 11 Alpha release notes one-sheet for people testing that release? In particular, if we expect a significant amount of testers might see a lag behind current Rawhide that exhibits this weird "won't-boot" behavior, we should say that.
If we can jump to the rawhide kernel that will fall out of koji in a few hours then the issue will go away. I've changed the default for intel_iommu to be disabled and require "intel_iommu=on" on the commandline.
I realize this may inconvenience the virt folks using this for passthrough, but sadly because of reported data corruption being possible if io craps out because of the DMAR, I thought it was important to make it opt-in not opt-out. (phew, long run-on sentence...)
cheers, Kyle