[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#611278: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: boot fails when iommu is enabled in bios

[Ward Vandewege]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:15:01PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:45:59AM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > When enabling the BIOS IOMMU option, the system does not boot.  The kernel
> > resets itself endlessly.
> 
> Which version works? How do you know that it is no bug in the BIOS?
> 
> > The hardware is Supermicro H8DGT-HIBQF
> 
> H8GQ6-F exhibits the same problem.

For H8DGT-HIBQF at least, it turns out that this is fixed in version 4.0.1-2
of the xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 package.

So, this bug report is a duplicate of #608715, and I can confirm that that
bug is fixed now.

Thanks,
Ward.