* Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here there is a series of 20 patches that lays the foundations for
> using dma_ops in i386 in the very same way x86_64, as well as many
> other architectures already do.
>
> The functions themselves for i386 are placed in a pci-base_32.c, but
> just a few among them are actually implemented. Most were no-ops
> anyway.
>
> Also, as I said, this is by no means a complete coverage of dma_ops.
> there are still some call sites to be patches in pci-dma_32.c
> (although I don't really plan to change them, but to integrate them in
> a single pci-dma.c). I intend to have it done progressively.
>
> The granularity is per-operation, meaning each patch moves one
> specific function to the common header. This is compiled-tested in
> both i386 and x86_64 in ~5 randconfigs each, and boot-tested in my
> hardware with my default configs
>
> The motivation for that is the ongoing work for pci-passthrough in
> KVM. So ingo, avi, what do you think it's the best way to handle these
> patches through?
looks very nice to me! I've applied it to x86.git, lets see what
happens.
Ingo
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