From: joro@8bytes.org (Joerg Roedel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/9] documentation: iommu: add description of ARM System MMU binding
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:55:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130621135507.GI11309@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130621095729.GA7766@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
Hi Will,
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:57:29AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> This is a common driver that will support any IOMMUs compatible with v1 or
> v2 of the ARM SMMU architecture. Currently, that includes SMMUs known
> informatively as MMU-400, MMU-401 and MMU-500. I had a look at the other
> IOMMU drivers in the kernel and they seem to be driving incompatible IOMMUs,
> so I don't see how this driver can replace those.
>
> However, we'll hopefully see ARM SMMU-compatible devices turning up soon (I
> know of many SoCs in development that are looking at them).
That sounds great. So in the future there will be a single driver for
most future SOCs. This is a real improvement over the current situation.
>From NVidia is another driver with 'smmu' in its name, is that one also
incompatible?
> Chaining is really horrible and exists as a hack to support virtualisation
> using two separate SMMUs, where neither of them can support nested
> translation.
I see, thanks for the explanation.
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-10 18:34 [PATCH 0/9] Add support for ARM SMMU architectures 1 and 2 Will Deacon
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 1/9] dma: pl330: rip out broken, redundant ID probing Will Deacon
2013-06-11 4:40 ` Jassi Brar
2013-06-11 8:45 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-11 22:31 ` Grant Likely
2013-06-12 5:31 ` Vinod Koul
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 2/9] dma: pl330: use dma_addr_t for describing bus addresses Will Deacon
2013-06-11 4:39 ` Jassi Brar
2013-06-11 22:32 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <CAJe_ZheKMVQgq42Vx5N1TXXdgFJ2sp50ixU30A7beXhmSVHnZQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-06-12 5:31 ` Vinod Koul
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: dma-mapping: convert DMA direction into IOMMU protection attributes Will Deacon
2013-06-19 8:37 ` Marek Szyprowski
2013-06-19 8:52 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-19 8:57 ` Marek Szyprowski
2013-06-25 10:12 ` Hiroshi Doyu
2013-06-25 11:37 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-25 11:52 ` Hiroshi Doyu
2013-06-25 12:34 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 4/9] ARM: dma-mapping: NULLify dev->archdata.mapping pointer on detach Will Deacon
2013-06-11 5:34 ` Hiroshi Doyu
2013-06-11 8:50 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-11 9:39 ` Hiroshi Doyu
2013-06-19 8:59 ` Marek Szyprowski
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 5/9] arm64: pgtable: use pte_index instead of __pte_index Will Deacon
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 6/9] arm64: device: add iommu pointer to device archdata Will Deacon
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 7/9] documentation: iommu: add description of ARM System MMU binding Will Deacon
2013-06-12 8:44 ` Grant Likely
2013-06-20 20:08 ` Joerg Roedel
2013-06-21 9:57 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-21 13:55 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2013-06-21 16:41 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-25 19:18 ` Stuart Yoder
2013-06-26 13:39 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-26 16:19 ` Stuart Yoder
2013-06-26 17:42 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-27 18:22 ` Stuart Yoder
2013-06-28 9:06 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-28 16:03 ` Stuart Yoder
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 8/9] iommu: add support for ARM Ltd. System MMU architecture Will Deacon
2013-06-20 21:26 ` Joerg Roedel
2013-06-21 10:23 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-21 14:13 ` Joerg Roedel
2013-06-21 15:00 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-21 15:30 ` Joerg Roedel
2013-06-21 16:40 ` Will Deacon
2013-06-10 18:34 ` [PATCH 9/9] MAINTAINERS: add entry for ARM system MMU driver Will Deacon
2013-06-12 8:45 ` Grant Likely
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