From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2840667DBC for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:47:49 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/2] POWERPC: Lower threshold for DART enablement to 1GB, V2 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Muli Ben-Yehuda In-Reply-To: <20060413064027.GH10412@granada.merseine.nu> References: <20060413020559.GC24769@pb15.lixom.net> <20060413022809.GD24769@pb15.lixom.net> <20060413025233.GE24769@pb15.lixom.net> <20060413064027.GH10412@granada.merseine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:45:49 +1000 Message-Id: <1144925149.4935.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Olof Johansson , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:40 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:52:33PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > > > iommu=off can still be used for those who don't want to deal with the > > overhead (and don't need it for any devices). > > I've been pondering walking the PCI bus before deciding to enable an > IOMMU and checking each device's DMA mask. Is this something that you > considered and rejected, or just something no one got around to doing? It would do the trick for airport cards in G5s.. a little bit of OF walking to find the card. It won't help with cardbus broadcom's but then, there is currently no G5 with a cardbus adaptor that I know of :) It's possible I suppose to get a pci<->cardbus adapter but I suppose in that case, we can ignore it ... Ben.