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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:01:29 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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To: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/20] dma_ops for i386
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Glauber Costa 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.
>
>   

I see the headers are unified, but the .c files are duplicated.  I 
presume unifying the implementation is deferred to later patches?


> 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?
>   

x86.git.

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