Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:22:19 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Tom Lyon <pugs@lyon-about.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, randy.dunlap@oracle.com,
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:14:00PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> On Sunday 13 June 2010 03:23:39 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> OK, after more investigation, I realize you are right.
> We definitely need the IOMMU protection for interrupts, and
> if we have it, a lot of the code for config space protection is pointless.
> It does seem that the Intel  intr_remapping code does what we want
> (accidentally) but that the AMD iommu code does not yet do any
> interrupt remapping.  Joerg - can you comment? On the roadmap?

Work on this is planned, but not at a high priority by now. I can
re-prioritize this item if needed.

	Joerg

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