* David Woodhouse ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 19:09 -0400, Don Dutile wrote:
> > How does the kernel probe for chipsets, then registers with the chipsets
> > to find the programmed IOMMU BAR values?
> > -- I missed that class.... I only have Intel Virt Tech Directed I/O
> > Architecture spec., and the beginning of IOMMU is based on DMAR tables...
> > If you have more info/guidance, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Hm, I thought we'd already started doing some of that in order to
> sanity-check the DMAR tables. The VTBAR registers are in PCI config
> space. The quirk_ioat_snb_local_iommu() check is already looking at
> them...

I always had the impression that things like VTBAR registers are
entirely chipset specific (and may not be there for all chipsets).
Would be great if that's incorrect.  Any idea?

thanks,
-chris
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