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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:53:18 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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On 08/02/2010 09:42 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
> Let me go to my favorite coffee shop and think this one through.
> Can I get concession for putting the original patch in (the simple, dumb one),
> and then:
>  - start working on the IOMMU register interface without having to try
>    to get it done for 2.6.36, and
>  - do the driverization as a seperate cleanup.
> 

That makes sense.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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