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From: Raimonds Cicans <ray@apollo.lv>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions about IOMMU & PCIe switch
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:04:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AD3D0B.6060501@apollo.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54AD21E2.2020100@ladisch.de>

On 07.01.2015 14:09, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Raimonds Cicans wrote:
>> We have two kinds of PCIe cards:
>> A1 - based on chip B
>> A2 - based on same chip B but behind PCIe switch
>>
>> Card A1 work flawlessly in any configuration,
>> but card A2 work flawlessly only if system
>> lack IOMMU or have disabled IOMMU
> In theory, such a switch should be transparent.
>
>> Do we have to treat card with PCIe switch in special way?
> No.  But the switch has to work correctly, and driver must be
> written correctly.
>
> Which switch?  Which driver?

We talk about TBS 6285 Quad DVB-T PCIe receiver card.
Starting from version V20 manufacturer added Pericom
PCIe switch PI7C9X2G304SL.

Card have 2 out of kernel drivers:
1) Semi open from TBS:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/tbs-linux-drivers_v141225.zip

2) Open from: https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media

If you want more information you can look at open ticket:
https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media/issues/66


Raimonds Cicans


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-07 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-07  4:06 Questions about IOMMU & PCIe switch Raimonds Cicans
2015-01-07 12:09 ` Clemens Ladisch
2015-01-07 14:04   ` Raimonds Cicans [this message]
2015-01-08  8:34     ` Clemens Ladisch
2015-01-08 15:05       ` Raimonds Cicans
2015-01-08 15:32         ` Manu Abraham
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-15 12:54 Luis Alves

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