Re: [PATCH 0/20] dma_ops for i386

Avi Kivity
2008-03-26T10:01:29Z

Glauber Costa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here there is a series of 20 patches that lays the foundations for
> using dma_ops in i386 in the very same way x86_64, as well as many other
> architectures already do.
>
> The functions themselves for i386 are placed in a pci-base_32.c, but just
> a few among them are actually implemented. Most were no-ops anyway.
>
>

I see the headers are unified, but the .c files are duplicated. I
presume unifying the implementation is deferred to later patches?

> The motivation for that is the ongoing work for pci-passthrough in KVM.
> So ingo, avi, what do you think it's the best way to handle these patches through?
>

x86.git.

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