On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 13:48 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > This patch is really ugly; adds another ifdef and VT-D specific code > to the generic place (arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c). > > However, I guess that we need to live with this for now since this > fixes the build error. It raises the question: Why are we using firmware-specific interfaces to list the available memory -- can't we get that from somewhere _generic_? The less we tie our code to these crappy BIOS, EFI and ACPI interfaces, the better off we'll be. > Another complaint from me is that, IIRC, the patch causes this build > error was posted was posted first during the merge window (18 June) > and merged few days later without properly reviewed (or compile > tested). I apologise for that. I got to it rather late, just as I was reviewing my outstanding code for Linus to pull. It _had_ been reviewed though -- this was the second incarnation of the patch, after review. I didn't include it in my original pull request, and instead let it sit in linux-next for a day (which is not long, I know, but better than nothing). I then spent that day testing it myself, and tracking down a bug in it. I sent the fixed version to Linus at the end of the day -- I _thought_ I would have been told of any IA64 build failures in linux-next by then, even if the original hadn't been tested on IA64 -- evidently I was wrong. I really must set myself up an IA64 cross-compiler. Every time I've looked at that so far I've got distracted into the whole "why is GCC/glibc build so incestuously broken" quagmire -- but I only need gcc, so I'll steel myself to ignore the braindamage and just build a simple compiler without glibc support. Better still would be if I could find some IA64 hardware with this IOMMU. Would kind of help with maintenance... -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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