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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: Desktop PC freezes after showing many times the lines "AMD-Vi:
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Hi Kelvin,

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 03:30:59PM +0200, Kelvin Gonzalez wrote:
> Thank you Joerg and Borislav,

sure, np.

Btw, please do not top-post when replying to that thread.

> There is no BIOS Update available for this Mother Board. It has the most
> recent from Jan 2014. And I didn't find any option available in the BIOS
> Menu to disable the IOMMU.
> 
> I tried yesterday a fresh install passing the 'amd_iommu=off' to the kernel
> and everything is working fine. No delays/hangs, etc. The workaround works
> just perfect.

Well, this disables the IOMMU on your machine and it works perfectly
because you're simply not using it anymore. :-)

If you get a BIOS update at some point and/or want to complain to the
board manufacturer to give you a BIOS update and to fix the IOMMU setup,
you could try to enable it again (i.e., remove the cmdline option) and
report back to us.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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