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From: David Woodhouse on 21 Mar 2010 12:00
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> Are you saying that these bogus tables are found on boards that do have
> VT-d hardware? I was working on the assumption that these tables result
> from the OEM building a BIOS with VT-d support for a board where the
> hardware is not present.

Yes. Most of these boards have VT-d but can't use it because the BIOS
vendors fucked up and never once booted a VT-d-capable OS to test it. (And
because the spec is bloody stupid and relies on BIOS tables rather than
enumerating through PCI or something like that).

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