Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] iommu-2.6.git tree | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:19:58 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:12 +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 04:30:43PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > As previously threatened, I've created an iommu-2.6.git tree: > > git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6.git > > http://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6.git > > Is there a specific reason why IOMMU stuff should go to Linus without > testing them in the x86 tree before? The DMA layer and IOMMU drivers are > an integral component of the architecture and patches for it are best > placed in the architecture tree instead of a seperate one, imho.
This is the purpose that linux-next serves, not the x86 forest-of-doom.
And I thought Ingo said his old iommu tree wasn't in there anyway? He said it was somewhere else, although I haven't actually managed to _find_ it.
The Intel IOMMU appears on IA64 too, and doesn't want to be developed and tested off in an x86-specific corner by itself. And I'm going to be looking at other generic things we can do to improve IOMMU-related performance, which will touch on other architectures too.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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