[PATCH 7/9] documentation: iommu: add description of ARM System MMU binding

Joerg Roedel joro at 8bytes.org
Thu Jun 20 16:08:45 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:34:43PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> This patch adds a description of the device tree binding for the ARM
> System MMU architecture.

Interesting, will this be a common driver to replace existing ARM IOMMU
drivers or is it a common driver for ARM IOMMUs found in future chips?

> +- smmu-parent   : When multiple SMMUs are chained together, this
> +                  property can be used to provide a phandle to the
> +                  parent SMMU (that is the next SMMU on the path going
> +                  from the mmu-masters towards memory) node for this
> +                  SMMU.

What happens when SMMUs are chained? Will the second SMMU seeing the DMA
just pass it through or is it translated again?


Thanks,

	Joerg





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