> On 05/10/2011 02:33 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
> > There should be nothing special about virtio-pci. These devices should
> > access memory in exactly the same way as any other PCI device. Bypassing
> > the normal PCI iommu is IMO a serious bug.
>
> I suspect that the argument is that virtio is imple
On 05/10/2011 02:33 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
> There should be nothing special about virtio-pci. These devices should access
> memory in exactly the same way as any other PCI device. Bypassing the normal
> PCI iommu is IMO a serious bug.
I suspect that the argument is that virtio is implemented on
> Since virtio devices intentionally access memory directly, we
> are not actually dependant on the iommu patches in order to
> make progress. Merely fixing the PCI interrupt setup was
> enough to get the virtio-pci interface working.
There should be nothing special about virtio-pci. These device
Since virtio devices intentionally access memory directly, we
are not actually dependant on the iommu patches in order to
make progress. Merely fixing the PCI interrupt setup was
enough to get the virtio-pci interface working.
We now make it quite a long way into the Debian Lenny install.
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