Re: [PATCH] Xen/i386 cleanups - AGP bus/phys cleanups

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> > Under Xen, however, the two are different - and the
> > AGPGART really needs to have the physical address ;)
> 
> If Xen is letting the kernel program the GART, you just lost any
> memory isolation between partitions you might have been trying to
> enforce. :)

All the device drivers live in domain 0, so Xen doesn't
need its own set of device drivers.

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