Re: [PATCH] iommu-PMEN_REG boot up support

2007-10-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:31:30PM -0700, Mark Gross wrote: > > What's the value of adding a command line option for this? Under > > what circumstances would we want to not clear this bit? > > umm, /me asks around and finds out that at this time there isn't > much point to having a command line t

Re: [PATCH] iommu-PMEN_REG boot up support

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Gross
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 02:19:38AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:18:49AM -0700, Mark Gross wrote: > > > The following patch clears the portect memory region enable bit at > > boot time by default. It also provides a kernel parrameter for > > disabling this behavior an

Re: [PATCH] iommu-PMEN_REG boot up support

2007-10-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:18:49AM -0700, Mark Gross wrote: > The following patch clears the portect memory region enable bit at > boot time by default. It also provides a kernel parrameter for > disabling this behavior and leave the PMEN_REG untouched if so > wanted. > > If the boot loader or p

[PATCH] iommu-PMEN_REG boot up support

2007-10-26 Thread Mark Gross
The following patch clears the portect memory region enable bit at boot time by default. It also provides a kernel parrameter for disabling this behavior and leave the PMEN_REG untouched if so wanted. If the boot loader or platform has protected memory regions enabled at boot time it could preven