From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
muli@il.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch take 2][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:39:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191469179.22572.145.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004013606.GA14755@askeshav-devel.jf.intel.com>
> > Why don't you use the new struct dev_archdata mechanism ? That's what I
> > use on powerpc to provide optional iommu linkage to any device in the
> > system.
> Good one. I will certainly try out your idea and will update the list
> tomorrow.
The advantage is that it allows to completely isolate the iommu code
from any dependency to PCI, which means you can implement DMA ops
support for various platform devices or other fancy things. Maybe not
the most useful in x86-land, but still ;-)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-08 20:05 [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-09 11:16 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-09-10 15:43 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-09 17:51 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-09-11 17:22 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-09 17:37 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-11 17:42 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-10 20:25 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-09-11 20:43 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-12 19:28 ` [patch][Intel-IOMMU] " Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-11 19:48 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-12 21:55 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-11 22:05 ` [BUG:] forcedeth: MCP55 not allowing DHCP Casey Dahlin
2007-09-18 1:59 ` Casey Dahlin
2007-09-13 1:29 ` [patch][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-14 16:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-25 17:07 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-03 21:13 ` [patch take 2][Intel-IOMMU] " Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-04 1:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-04 1:36 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-04 3:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-10-04 19:20 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-05 3:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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