Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:53:41 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:27 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> 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.
but the result is butt-ugly... please don't do that... that code is.. interesting enough already without all the junk added to it
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