Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752823AbYJTXxb (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:53:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752818AbYJTXxE (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:53:04 -0400 Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:56699 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752583AbYJTXxC (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:53:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:51:44 +0900 To: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, joro@8bytes.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, andreas.herrmann3@amd.com, joseph.cihula@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] iommu-2.6.git tree From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: References: <20081019212327.GI21841@8bytes.org> <20081020123245J.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20081021085211D.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 21 On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:06:15 -0700 "Yu, Fenghua" wrote: > >IA64 and PARISC uses the same IOMMU hardware but they duplicate the > >driver for them (the drivers are very similar). Calgary and POWER also > >have similar IOMMU drivers. But I don't think it's worth merging them. > > If you are talking about IA64 HP ZX1, then it does have same IOMMU hardware as PARISC. Yeah, I was talking about SBA. > But now David is pushing Intel VT-d IOMMU code for IA64. The > hardware and driver are different from HP or PARISC. The hardware is > same as x86 VT-d and the driver is ported from x86 IOMMU driver. Yeah, I know that. I just tried to point out that there is no cross-platform (architecture independent) IOMMU stuff and David's new git tree should be VT-d git tree, not a tree for architecture independent IOMMU stuff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/