On Monday, February 7, 2005 2:07 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to allow pluggable IOMMUs at the ia64 architecture > level, replacing the machvecs? > > zx1 already has a switch to use swiotl for devices with too small dma > masks (and altix would need that one aswell if it tried to support such > devices).
Something like that might be nice as part of the bridge driver work that's being discussed on lkml. Machine vectors as they stand right now aren't a good fit since they're only initialized once for the platform at boot time, not on a per-chip basis. Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
