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

[Keir Fraser]

On 18 Mar 2005, at 00:16, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> That sounds like a good way to make AGP accesses slower. :)
>
> Seriously, given that AGP is a technology that is being superseded by
> PCI Express, I think it's reasonable to look at the range of current
> implementations to see what we have to cope with.  So I don't think
> it's worth worrying too much about the possibility of GARTs that go
> through the IOMMU.  However, the idea of having phys_to_agp/agp_to_phys
> (or virt_to_agp/agp_to_virt) sounds like it wouldn't be too much
> effort, if it would help Xen.

I'll post a patch for this next week. Thanks for your patience so far!

 -- Keir

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