Re: [PATCH v11 3/7] iommu: Add verisilicon IOMMU driver

From: Jörg Rödel

Date: Sun Jan 18 2026 - 04:41:09 EST


Benjamin,

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 04:10:51PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> I took another look at this to see whether it had changed significantly
> from v6 when compared to the rockchip driver. Sadly, they still look
> very similar to me and I continue to suspect that the hardware is a
> derivative. I really don't understand why having a shared implementation
> of the default domain ops is difficult or controversial. Have you tried
> to write it?

When updating for v12, can you please put an explanatory comment at the top of
the file explaining the relationship of the IP this driver is for to the
RockChip IOMMU and the rationale for having it as a separate driver? I want
this part of the discussion documented in the code in case it comes up again.


-Joerg