On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:39:19PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2007 17:55, Ashok Raj wrote: > > This patch contains basic ACPI parsing and enumeration support. > > AFAICS, ACPI supplies the envelope which delivers the table, > and ACPI has some convenience structure definitions for that > table in include/acpi/actbl1.h (primarily for the acpixtract table > dis-assembler), > but ACPI is otherwise not involved in IOMMU support. > > Indeed, one might argue that all new functions in this patch series with > "acpi..." would more appropriately be called "pci...", since a cursory > scan of the IOMMU spec seems to suggest it is specific to PCI.
Think we can migrate some of the code to make the core part just perform the get-table. We will do that in the next respin. > > So on first blush, it looks like the only call to a function that begins with > "acpi" in this patch series should be acpi_get_table() from some IOMMU > specific file outside of drivers/acpi, > and the only modification to any code with an "acpi" in the file path or > filename should > be any updates to the convenience structure definitions in acpitbl1.h > > thanks, > -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/