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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 0/3] altix: AGP bridge support for tioca chip
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:07:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050207100759.GA11949@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050204213158.16671.87679.94380@attica.americas.sgi.com>

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:31:58PM -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
> This patchset provides new hardware support for the SGI TIOCA agp chip.
> 
> In order to stitch this into the SGI sn2 pci dma layer, it is necessary
> to add an abstraction which is implmented by PATCH 1/3 
> (sn2-pci-dma-abstraction.patch).
> 
> Additionally, a couple of header files were moved out of arch/ia64/sn
> and into include/asm-ia64/sn.  I also took the opportunity to kill some
> unused macros.  This is done by PATCH 2/3 (sn2-move-pci-headers.patch).
> 
> The TIOCA driver is implemented as an sn2 pci provider with hooks 
> externalized for an upcoming agpgart backend.  The TIOCA kernel driver is
> provided with PATCH 3/3 (sn2-tioca-driver.patch).

Wouldn't it be better to allow pluggable IOMMUs at the ia64 architecture
level, replacing the machvecs?

zx1 already has a switch to use swiotl for devices with too small dma
masks (and altix would need that one aswell if it tried to support such
devices).


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-07 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-04 21:31 [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 0/3] altix: AGP bridge support for tioca chip Mark Maule
2005-02-07 10:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-02-07 16:51 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-08  0:08 ` Mark Maule
2005-02-08 18:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-08 18:15 ` Luck, Tony
2005-03-10 21:55 ` Mark Maule

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