On Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:31:57 Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >>(and I think it mostly already doesn't even without that)
> > >
> > >It uses /sys/bus/pci/* which is not any better as seen from the
> > > IOMMU.
> > >
> > >Any interface will need to be explicit because user space needs to
> > > know which
> > >DMA addresses to put into the hardware. It's not enough to just
> > >transparently
> > >translate the mappings.
> >
> > that's what DRM is used for nowadays...
>
> But DRM does support much less hardware than the X server?
Yeah, the number of DRM drivers is relatively small compared to X or
fbdev, but for simple DMA they're fairly easy to write.
> Perhaps we just need an ioctl where an X server can switch this.
Switch what? Turn on or off transparent translation?
Jesse
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