On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:06:49AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:41:16PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > Maybe a bit of introduction could be useful (also regarding the
> > pci_map/alloc comments below).
> > 
> > Our devices are on-chip, and while they're not on a PCI(e) bus internally,
> > they do have config headers and will show up as devices on a pseudo-bus
> > (the root one, in fact).
> > 
> > Also, while the driver could go through the IOMMU layers, there's no
> > real use in doing so at this time.
> 
> sorry, but bypassing this is not what what we want in drivers at all.
> In case you have an iommu and don't want it on the root bus chose
> the noop dma implementation for this bus, which is easily possible on
> powerpc.

Good point, I'll do that instead.


-Olof
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