From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761238AbZEGOht (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 10:37:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754206AbZEGOhk (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 10:37:40 -0400 Received: from va3ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.180.12]:24714 "EHLO VA3EHSOBE002.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754007AbZEGOhj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 10:37:39 -0400 X-BigFish: VPS-24(zz1432R98dR1805M936fJzz1202hzzz32i6bh43j62h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 1:0 X-WSS-ID: 0KJA3A5-03-FJ1-01 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 16:37:18 +0200 From: Joerg Roedel To: FUJITA Tomonori CC: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com, airlied@linux.ie Subject: Re: IOMMU and graphics cards Message-ID: <20090507143717.GK4059@amd.com> References: <20090507100114.GF4059@amd.com> <1241691721.3531.73.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090507121535.GH4059@amd.com> <20090507215933K.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090507215933K.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 May 2009 14:37:18.0393 (UTC) FILETIME=[52A11A90:01C9CF21] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:59:19PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > Have you already discussed this issue with distribution people? > > I'm not sure if they would just disable the IOMMU. They want it for > exotic virtualization features? Not yet. But thats true for distributions using KVM as their virtualization technology. Joerg -- | Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Operating | Karl-Hammerschmidt-Str. 34, 85609 Dornach bei München System | Research | Geschäftsführer: Thomas M. McCoy, Giuliano Meroni Center | Sitz: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis München | Registergericht München, HRB Nr. 43632