Re: [RFC][PATCH] devicetree: Add master-id-bits property to the iommu device

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On Sunday 14 September 2014, Varun Sethi wrote:
> "master-id-bits" property added to the IOMMU device node. This property can
> be used by the IOMMU driver to match relevan bits in the master id expressed
> by a DMA master.
> 
> This can be used to mask out certain bits that get added to the device master id
> due to IOMMU topology. For example, in case of MMU-500 the TBUID gets appended to
> the master id. This prevents sharing of a stream ID, amongst devices which are
> connected to different TBUs. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This seems rather specific to MMU-500. I don't think that most IOMMUs would
use the term 'master ID', 'stream ID' or even the general concept, and you don't
expand the acronym 'TBU'. I've seen many IOMMUs and I don't even know what
that means.

Why do you think this is something that is needed to be known at the global
level, rather than a property for some individual drivers?

	Arnd
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