Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:27:12 +0000 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen) |
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>>> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 12.02.07 18:12 >>> >On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:30:55AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> As the topic says - the goal is to support Xen. But yes, I was afraid someone would >> claim this make the code look ugly. And no, I currently don't have ideas to address >> any of your comments without breaking functionality on Xen... > >We don't have Xen merged, and it doesn't look like we're going to get it >soon. Also the code is only for dom0 which will take even longer. >At this point I'm pretty sure the code is cleaner, simpler and easier to >maintain if you just split out a xendom0swiotlb instead of messing up >the existing code.
We have such a file, and the purpose of the patch was to get rid of it.
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