Re: [RFC 0/6] iommu: generic api migration and grouping

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sunday 05 June 2011, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, once we have that in
> > place, we you can migrate omap3isp from iovmm to dma-mapping and
> > remove iovmm.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.
> 
> I'd still prefer us to take small steps here, and not gate the omap
> iommu cleanups with Marek's generic dma_map_ops work though. Let's go
> forward and migrate omap's iommu to the generic iommu API, so new code
> will be able to use it (e.g. the long coming virtio-based IPC/AMP
> framework).

Yes, of course. That's what I meant. Moving over omap to the IOMMU API
is required anyway, so there is no point delaying that.

> We'll migrate iovmm/omap3isp just enough so they don't break, but once
> the generic dma_map_ops work materializes, we'd be able to complete
> the migration, remove iovmm, and decouple omap3isp from omap-specific
> iommu APIs for good.

Ok, great!

	Arnd
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