Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu: dmar -- reserve mmio space used by IOMMU

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So for all practical purposes we get 99% of the warning power 
> without going into chicken-and-egg problems like how do we 
> determine that there's an IOMMU area there if there's no IOMMU 
> aware code in the kernel, right? 

That's not a chicken-and-egg problem. It's hardly difficult to see the
DMAR ACPI table and take a *basic* look at the DRHD entries. You don't
even need to fully parse it.

Doing it even without *ACPI* in your kernel would be a different
matter :)

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dwmw2

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