[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 3/3] Cell IOMMU static mapping support

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 29 08:18:22 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:23 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Having that described in the patch (or at least in the patch
> description)
> to make it more clear could be good. That, and the fact that the
> mapping
> is offset on <32GB memory machines, and thus not really a 1:1 mapping.

It is at an offset still on the PCI bus.

On those, 0...2G will be used to cover the hole, but a different range
higher in the bus space (in 64 bits space) will be use to access the
linear mapping.

Ben.





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