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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Add iommu=on for enabling DART on small-mem machines
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 28 Feb 2004 13:52:27 +0100
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olof@austin.ibm.com writes:

> Linus,
> 
> Below patch makes it possible for people like me with a small-mem G5 to
> enable the DART. I see two reasons for wanting to do so:

Could you call it iommu=force ? 

It would be the same name as on x86-64 for the same thing then and
a consistent name may be easier to get to driver developers.

-Andi