From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761213AbZEGRFD (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 13:05:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754304AbZEGREw (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 13:04:52 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53881 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754299AbZEGREv (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 13:04:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:04:49 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Joerg Roedel Cc: David Woodhouse , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com, airlied@linux.ie Subject: Re: IOMMU and graphics cards Message-ID: <20090507170449.GA14681@infradead.org> References: <20090428150531.GZ17438@amd.com> <1240932530.2567.91.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090428160448.GA17438@amd.com> <20090507164742V.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20090507100114.GF4059@amd.com> <1241691721.3531.73.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090507121535.GH4059@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090507121535.GH4059@amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:15:35PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > Well, it is not that simple. Having no workaround at all will not result > in working proprietary drivers. Which could be considered at not too bad thing anyway. > More likely is that distros just disable > the IOMMU because their customers want to use these drivers for working > 3d acceleration. Maybe Ubuntu :)