[PATCH 8/8] Cell IOMMU fixed mapping support

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Jan 30 02:15:11 EST 2008


On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:14:03AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> For example a machine with 4GB of memory would end up with the normal
> IOMMU window from 0-2GB and the fixed mapping window from 2GB to 6GB. In
> this case a 64-bit device wishing to DMA to 1GB would be told to DMA to
> 3GB, plus any offset required by firmware. The firmware offset is encoded
> in the "dma-ranges" property.

Shouldn't the fixed mapping be between 4G and 8G (and the offset for 1G
is at 5G), to account for the MMIO range at 2-4G?


-Olof




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