>>> What do you think about IOMMU? >>> >>> >> Just because AMD or INTEL want to invent some whizzy new technology it >> doesn't say anything about the TV card development and retail business. >> Intel and AMD have teams of Linux engineers helping operating system >> developers bring their ideas and technologies to new platforms. That's a >> million miles away from any of the TV board vendors I know of, who have >> little or NO fulltime linux developers and consider the < 5% market >> fringe at best. >> > > it helps to virtualize devices and introduces newer features for that. > Some interesting projects could be derrived out of that, there are > quite a few interesting papers floating around how drivers could be > handled in future. > IOMMU can be considered similar to the AGP GART, which is similar, remapping the Addresses, as far as i understand. Though you get a physical to virtual translation, what about interrupts, yet to be seen with how to do it with multipath scenarios. Something that i happened to read https://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/comp-arch/2007-March/007370.html Even Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt, doesn't seem to paint a very rosy picture Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
