Re: aperture_64: use symbolic constants

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:32:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

 > > Instead of making this an inline, we could add it to the agpgart code
 > > and export it, and have the gart-iommu code call it.
 > > You can't build the IOMMU code without agpgart anyway, and having this inlined
 > > in both places seems a bit wasteful.
 > > Additionally, it would mean not having a function in a header file,
 > > which always strikes me as a wrong thing to do.
 > 
 > Can you elaborate? Yes, it would be nicer if this went to .c
 > somewhere, but aperture_64.c seems unsuitable (we need it on 32-bit,
 > too, right?)... plus it was __init in one place, and __devinit in the
 > other, so I figured out "inline it so that it works automagically".
 > 
 > Plus, I don't think it should go into drivers/agp, as iommu code in
 > arch/x86/kernel seems to be able to work without that...?

If you enable IOMMU, you _have_ to enable AGP.  (well, you don't have to,
it does a 'select AGP' for you when you enable it :-)

It does this because the agpgart driver needs to know how much of the
aperture has been stolen for IOMMU use, and I think it already uses some
functions from that driver already.

	Dave

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