From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] swiotlb: use phys_addr_t for pages Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:56:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20081228115621.GA11954@elte.hu> References: <20081228093751.GC9022@elte.hu> <20081228190111H.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20081228103419.GA7128@elte.hu> <20081228195952F.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081228195952F.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com, beckyb@kernel.crashing.org, joerg.roedel@amd.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org * FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > You brought up a different topic, DMA bouncing implementations > unification. DMA bouncing implementations unification is a very nice > cleanup. But it's not related with Becky's patch to break IA64 build at > all. All i'm saying is that obviously neither Jeremy's nor Becky's patches were created in a vacuum, and had it not been for the need and desire to extend swiotlb we'd not have seen Becky's 9/9 cleanup patch either. Ingo