> Some background: On the Apple M1 the IOMMUs are hardwired to only support 16 
> KB pages.
> We'd still like to boot Linux with 4KB pages though because that's what most 
> distros
> ship these days. This patch series adds support for that setup to the IOMMU 
> DMA API.

This isn't just a distro issue -- efficient x86_64 emulation will rely
on 4KB as well (Rosetta, FEX, ...). Telling distros to use 16KB kernels
for Apple parts is just kicking the can down the road -- we want this
series even for kernels we build ourselves.
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