Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken

From: Tony Luck
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 14:07:32 EST


> x86-64 uses swioltb as well, via arch/ia64 directly. John Linville has
> a patch to move the swiotlb to lib/swiotlb.c that is waiting in an
> IA64 for inclusion (post 2.6.14, I guess?)

Yes. John's patch is sitting in a "swiotlb" branch of my GIT tree. I'd like to
hear some positive confirmation from Linus and/or Andrew that moving this
up to lib/ is ok ... I don't want to be accused of shovelling tasteless code up
into the base.

This is definitely a post 2.6.14 move.

-Tony
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