On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 04:03:02AM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 09:48 +0200, Roedel, Joerg wrote: > > > Hrm, indeed I just noticed that. Pretty gross... it should definitly > > be > > > renamed, is will caused endless confusion with unrelated iommu.h and > > > iommu_* interfaces which represent something different. > > > > The first direction to go should be trying to unify all the different > > iommu* interfaces into the iommu-api. The generic api will definitly > > need to be extended for that, but since it is an in-kernel interface > > thats no problem. > > Well, I suppose I'm the de-facto candidate to take care of the powerpc > side then :-) > > I don't have the bandwidth right now, but I'll try to have a look when > time permits. Btw. I have some ideas to extend the IOMMU-API to also support GART-like IOMMUs. These pieces could also support (limited-size) domains (without isolation) using segmentation. Not sure if this makes sense for the use-cases in other architectures but we should not declare this impossible for now. -- Joerg Roedel - AMD Operating System Research Center Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24 85609 Dornach General Managers: Alberto Bozzo, Andrew Bowd Registration: Dornach, Landkr. Muenchen; Registerger. Muenchen, HRB Nr. 43632 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
