linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] Documentation: x86: Add documentation for AMD IOMMU

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Message-ID: <79bde999-cf8d-796b-1ddf-3cf612d28375@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:20:47 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@....com>,
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        "Suthikulpanit, Suravee" <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
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        "Hegde, Vasant" <Vasant.Hegde@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] Documentation: x86: Add documentation for AMD
 IOMMU

On 3/30/22 07:01, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
>> Just scanning this, it looks *awfully* generic.  Is anything in
>> here AMD- specific?  Should this be in an AMD-specific file?
> There is some information about the ACPI tables used to enumerate the
> IOMMUs and a link to the AMD IOMMU programming documentation.  Would
> you prefer I just create a combined x86 IOMMU document?

Yeah, I think that would make a lot of sense.  Let's just have one
document with an AMD section and an Intel section.  Maybe just rename
the existing one to intel-iommu => x86-iommu.rst.