"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:38:03PM -0500, Bandan Das wrote: >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: >> >> > From: Bandan Das <b...@redhat.com> >> > >> > There's no indication of any sort that i440fx doesn't support >> > "iommu=on" >> >> Oh, Markus quite didn't like this approach because this is >> true for all other machines too. Anyway, I will keep in >> mind to take care of this when I post a generic patch. > > Do you think I should revert this one then?
The patch isn't wrong, it merely addresses only one special case of a generic issue. Probably the most important case in practice. If I understood Bandan correctly, he intended to drop this patch and work on a general solution. As far as I'm concerned, you can keep this patch if dropping it is inconvenient.