Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:20:45 -0700 | Subject | Re: How could we get rid of saved_max_pfn for calgary iommu? | From | Jon Mason <> |
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@cs.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:46:44AM -0700, Jon Mason wrote: > >> > I don't know of anyone still using it, but it's not >> > impossible. Calgary and CalIOC2 machines would now be ~5-8 years >> > old. >> >> It is getting a bit crufty in arch/x86. Would it be better to move >> it to drivers/iommu? > > Not sure I see the potential benefit... I think for Calgary it's > either leave it in arch/x86 or rip it out.
The intent is for it go where the other IOMMU drivers are, and gain changes to the overall infrastructure as it evolves. There has been a decent amount of work going on in there :)
Of course, someone would have to put the effort in and test it.
> > Cheers, > Muli
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