Re: [PATCH 0/5] soc: ti: Add and use PVU on K3-AM65 for DMA isolation

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On 26/08/2024 19:56, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Only few of the K3 SoCs have an IOMMU and, thus, can isolate the system
> against DMA-based attacks of external PCI devices. The AM65 is without
> an IOMMU, but it comes with something close to it: the Peripheral
> Virtualization Unit (PVU).
> 
> The PVU was originally designed to establish static compartments via a
> hypervisor, isolate those DMA-wise against each other and the host and
> even allow remapping of guest-physical addresses. But it only provides
> a static translation region, not page-granular mappings. Thus, it cannot
> be handled transparently like an IOMMU.

You keep developing on some old kernel. I noticed it on few patchsets
last days. Please work on mainline.

Best regards,
Krzysztof





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