From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5EA6B01C0 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager From: Daniel Walker In-Reply-To: <20100701180241.GA3594@basil.fritz.box> References: <1277877350-2147-1-git-send-email-zpfeffer@codeaurora.org> <1277877350-2147-3-git-send-email-zpfeffer@codeaurora.org> <20100701101746.3810cc3b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20100701180241.GA3594@basil.fritz.box> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:28:23 -0700 Message-ID: <1278012503.7738.17.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Randy Dunlap , Zach Pfeffer , mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-ID: On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 20:02 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > What license (name/type) is this? > > IANAL, but AFAIK standard wisdom is that "disclaimer in the documentation > and/or other materials provided" is generally not acceptable for Linux > because it's an excessive burden for all distributors. It's the BSD license .. > Also for me it's still quite unclear why we would want this code at all... > It doesn't seem to do anything you couldn't do with the existing interfaces. I don't know all that much about what Zach's done here, but from what he's said so far it looks like this help to manage lots of IOMMUs on a single system.. On x86 it seems like there's not all that many IOMMUs in comparison .. Zach mentioned 10 to 100 IOMMUs .. Daniel -- Sent by a consultant of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org