Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:51:44 +0900 | Subject | RE: [ANNOUNCE] iommu-2.6.git tree | From | FUJITA Tomonori <> |
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:06:15 -0700 "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com> wrote:
> >IA64 and PARISC uses the same IOMMU hardware but they duplicate the > >driver for them (the drivers are very similar). Calgary and POWER also > >have similar IOMMU drivers. But I don't think it's worth merging them. > > If you are talking about IA64 HP ZX1, then it does have same IOMMU hardware as PARISC.
Yeah, I was talking about SBA.
> But now David is pushing Intel VT-d IOMMU code for IA64. The > hardware and driver are different from HP or PARISC. The hardware is > same as x86 VT-d and the driver is ported from x86 IOMMU driver.
Yeah, I know that.
I just tried to point out that there is no cross-platform (architecture independent) IOMMU stuff and David's new git tree should be VT-d git tree, not a tree for architecture independent IOMMU stuff.
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