From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Muli Ben-Yehuda <MULI@il.ibm.com>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
discuss@x86-64.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - hook it in
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:38:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060315013820.GL23631@granada.merseine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060315000621.GC7699@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:06:21PM -0600, Jon Mason wrote:
> > No, it was pretty clear. But unless these machines are pretty common,
> > I'd suggest users to say N. ... its like most drivers, it takes space
> > but no other harm. Still we don't want to say "say Y" on all drivers.
>
> Ah, I understand your point now. I'll fixup the comment and default
> value.
I disagree - I think it's quite enough that it depends on EXPERIMENTAL
&& MPSC. Also, gart is default Y as well.
> > ...it is not required for boot on IBM x366 machines, is it?
>
> No, it is not.
... but defaulting it to Y has significant advantages at this stage,
not the least of which is that it will get us more testing :-)
Cheers,
Muli
--
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-15 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-14 8:24 [RFC PATCH 1/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - introduce iommu_detected Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-03-14 8:25 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - Calgary specific bits Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-03-14 8:26 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - hook it in Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-03-14 23:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-14 23:22 ` Jon Mason
2006-03-14 23:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-15 0:06 ` Jon Mason
2006-03-15 1:38 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2006-03-14 23:03 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - Calgary specific bits Pavel Machek
2006-03-15 0:55 ` Jon Mason
2006-03-15 0:56 ` Olof Johansson
2006-03-15 1:27 ` Jon Mason
2006-03-15 3:18 ` Olof Johansson
2006-03-15 1:52 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-03-14 15:01 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - introduce iommu_detected Andi Kleen
2006-03-14 15:07 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
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