[PATCH] [2/2] POWERPC: Lower threshold for DART enablement to 1GB, V2

Muli Ben-Yehuda mulix at mulix.org
Thu Apr 13 16:40:27 EST 2006


On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:52:33PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:

> iommu=off can still be used for those who don't want to deal with the
> overhead (and don't need it for any devices).

I've been pondering walking the PCI bus before deciding to enable an
IOMMU and checking each device's DMA mask. Is this something that you
considered and rejected, or just something no one got around to doing?

Cheers,
Muli
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