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    SubjectRe: alpha iommu fixes
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    > I can be really wrong on this because I didn't checked anything about
    > the GART yet but I suspect you cannot use the GART for this stuff on
    > ia32 in 2.4 because I think I recall it provides not an huge marging of
    > mapping entries that so would far too easily trigger the bugs in the
    > device drivers not checking for pci_map_* faliures also in a common
    > desktop/webserver/fileserver kind of usage of an high end machine.

    Not all chipsets support reading through GART address space from PCI either,
    it is meant for AGP to use.

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