linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/5] x86/iommu: Bootup stage cleanups

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Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2014 13:22:22 +0100
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] x86/iommu: Bootup stage cleanups

Hi Thomas,

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:48:28AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> That solves the issue at hand, but the iommu setup stays a tangled
> maze with completely non obvious setup mechanisms depending on the
> options (iommu on/off - irq remapping on/off).

Thanks for this nice cleanup, for the IOMMU parts you can add my

	Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>

This reminded me again how complicated the iommu-setup on x86 is, I will
look further in how this could be simplified.


	Joerg

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