rpms/kernel/devel linux-2.6-defaults-intel_iommu-off.patch, NONE, 1.1 kernel.spec, 1.1225, 1.1226

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hi Kyle,

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 18:49 +0000, Kyle McMartin wrote:

>  * Fri Jan 23 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
> - disable intel_iommu by default (enable with "intel_iommu=on")

Why so?

We're pretty much guaranteed that no-one will enable this ... do we know
of specific hardware that this is breaking?

One of the major virt features in F11 needs this:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment

Thanks,
Mark.