Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] iommu/virtio: Add topology description to virtio-iommu config space

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On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 05:16:12PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 06:25:36PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> > This solution isn't elegant nor foolproof, but is the best we can do at
> > the moment and works with existing virtio-iommu implementations. It also
> > enables an IOMMU for lightweight hypervisors that do not rely on
> > firmware methods for booting.
> 
> I appreciate the enablement on x86, but putting the conmfiguration into
> mmio-space isn't really something I want to see upstream.

It's in virtio config space, not in mmio-space. With a PCI virtio-IOMMU
device this will be in memory.

> What is the
> problem with defining an ACPI table instead? This would also make things
> work on AARCH64 UEFI machines.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Joerg




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