Re: [Intel IOMMU][patch 7/8] Support for legacy ISA devices

2007-04-24 Thread Ashok Raj
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:31:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:03:06 Ashok Raj wrote: > > Floppy disk drivers dont work well with DMA remapping. > > What is the problem? You can't allocate mappings <16MB? No.. these drivers dont call DMA mapping api's.. thats the proble

Re: [Intel IOMMU][patch 7/8] Support for legacy ISA devices

2007-04-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:03:06 Ashok Raj wrote: Floppy disk drivers dont work well with DMA remapping. What is the problem? You can't allocate mappings <16MB? floppy doesn't use the DMA mapping API :) that's the problem - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: [Intel IOMMU][patch 7/8] Support for legacy ISA devices

2007-04-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:03:06 Ashok Raj wrote: > Floppy disk drivers dont work well with DMA remapping. What is the problem? You can't allocate mappings <16MB? > Its possible to > extend the current use for x86_64, but the gain is very little. If someone > feels compelled to clean this up,

[Intel IOMMU][patch 7/8] Support for legacy ISA devices

2007-04-24 Thread Ashok Raj
Floppy disk drivers dont work well with DMA remapping. Its possible to extend the current use for x86_64, but the gain is very little. If someone feels compelled to clean this up, its up for grabs. Since these use 16M, we just provide a unity map for the ISA bridge device. Signed-off-by: Ashok R

[Intel IOMMU][patch 7/8] Support for legacy ISA devices

2007-04-24 Thread Ashok Raj
Floppy disk drivers dont work well with DMA remapping. Its possible to extend the current use for x86_64, but the gain is very little. If someone feels compelled to clean this up, its up for grabs. Since these use 16M, we just provide a unity map for the ISA bridge device. Signed-off-by: Ashok R