Re: [PATCH 0/4] drivers/iommu/ relocations

From: Roedel, Joerg
Date: Wed Jun 08 2011 - 09:35:45 EST


On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:11:16AM -0400, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > You've missed at least parisc, ia64, alpha, sparc, powerpc and sh which
> > have IOMMUs.
>
> None of these seem to call register_iommu.
>
> > Not that they necessarily all need to be moved across in
> > one patchset, but saying "all iommu drivers" is clearly false.
>
> I've moved only the existing IOMMU API users.

And I think that is good for now. The iommu-api needs to be extended to
cover all kinds of iommus (like the iommus available on other
architectures). It is definitly the plan to do that and have a common
dma_ops implementation for all of them. But lets start small by now and
move forward step by step :-)

Joerg

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