From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dma_mapping_ops for i386
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:21:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706270021.11434.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46817016.7090400@goop.org>
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 21:59, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I'm looking at adding dom0 support to the pv-ops kernel. One of the
> obvious things we need is to support real device drivers, and the
> associated p->m translations for devices.
>
> I'm thinking the cleanest thing to do is make x86-64's dma-mapping.h
> with its dma_mapping_ops common to i386 and x86-64, so we can hook the
> Xen translations in there. Presumably we'll need to do this anyway to
> support VTd for 32-bit (but I don't know if that's a reasonable thing to
> do anyway).
>
> What do you think?
Ok, if you can do it without ifdefs.
And no swiotlb on i386; that is something that is completely broken
in upstream Xen and needs to be fixed properly anyways.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-26 19:59 dma_mapping_ops for i386 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-26 22:21 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-27 14:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-27 15:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-27 18:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-27 20:28 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-30 18:41 ` Herbert Xu
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