linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] iommu-2.6.git tree

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Date:	Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:19:58 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fenghua.yu@...el.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	andreas.herrmann3@....com, joseph.cihula@...el.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iommu-2.6.git tree

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:12 +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 04:30:43PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > As previously threatened, I've created an iommu-2.6.git tree:
> > 	git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6.git
> > 	http://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6.git
> 
> Is there a specific reason why IOMMU stuff should go to Linus without
> testing them in the x86 tree before? The DMA layer and IOMMU drivers are
> an integral component of the architecture and patches for it are best
> placed in the architecture tree instead of a seperate one, imho.

This is the purpose that linux-next serves, not the x86 forest-of-doom.

And I thought Ingo said his old iommu tree wasn't in there anyway? He
said it was somewhere else, although I haven't actually managed to
_find_ it.

The Intel IOMMU appears on IA64 too, and doesn't want to be developed
and tested off in an x86-specific corner by itself. And I'm going to be
looking at other generic things we can do to improve IOMMU-related
performance, which will touch on other architectures too.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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