[RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 28 April 2011, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:29:16PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 4. Implement an architecture independent version of dma_map_ops
> >    based on the iommu.h API. As Joerg mentioned, this has been
> >    missing for some time, and it would be better to do it once
> >    than for each IOMMU separately. This is probably a lot of work.
> 
> Yes, thats missing for a long time. It will also need some changes to
> the IOMMU-API but that should be doable. The best would be to extend the
> IOMMU-API so that it also supports GART-like IOMMUs. This way every
> dma_ops implementation on all the architectures providing such an IOMMU
> could be covered with the architecture independent dma_ops
> implementation. This would only leave the low-level hardware access in
> the IOMMU drivers.
> I think this also requires to change the current semantics of the
> existing IOMMU-API implementations. I will prepare a write-up of my
> ideas for discussion.

Ok, thanks!

Please include Marek in this, he said he has already started with an
implementation. Any insight from you will certainly help.

	Arnd