Xen error: (XEN) AMD-Vi: SP5100 erratum 28 detected, disabling IOMMU. (XEN) If possible, disable SATA Combined mode in BIOS or contact your vendor for BIOS update. (XEN) AMD-Vi: Error initialization (XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled -but HAP is working, (XEN) HVM: SVM enabled (XEN) HVM: Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) detected (XEN) HVM: HAP page sizes: 4kB, 2MB, 1GB Src:https://lists.gt.net/xen/users/371020
AMD's SP5100 chipset can be placed into SATA Combined mode that may cause prevent dom0 from booting when IOMMU is enabled and per-device interrupt remapping table is used. While SP5100 erratum 28 requires BIOSes to disable this mode, some may still use it. src: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/2724.html
ENABLE_IDE_COMBINED_MODE available for sp800 but not for sp700, for ewhich sp5100 is derived from: https://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_Options
SP5100 Product Errata 46836 Rev. 3.00 June 2012 P.18 Product Errata 28 Incorrect IOMMU Table Accessed in SATA Combined Mode
Description Systems with SP5100 SATA set to AHCI or IDE combined mode with SATA port 4 or 5 in use will use the SATA source ID for IDE DMA when consulting the IOMMU tables.
Potential Effect on System Operating systems where the IDE and SATA tables are separated will experience I/O page faults.
Several warnings will be issued during kernel initialization, ultimately leading to the inability to boot the operating system due to the boot disk not being found.
Suggested Workaround Disable combined mode by setting a platform BIOS callback option to CIMx called "SataIdeCombinedMode" to 0. This change will not have an impact on AHCI/RAID mode, however, in IDE mode, the total number of available ports is reduced by two.
Fix Planned No src:https://support.amd.com/TechDocs/46836.pdf
Coreboot: Release 4.6 Xen: 4.8.x Xen code responsible for detection: https://github.com/xenserver/xen-4.3.pg/blob/master/tweak-iommu-errata-polic...
Is there something i'm missing? Is it possible to disable combined sata mode for sb700 from coreboot?
Thanks, Thierry