[PATCH v6 6/8] dma-mapping: detect and configure IOMMU in of_dma_configure

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jan 7 10:57:05 PST 2015


Hi Arnd,

Sorry for the delay on this, I had to do a bit of digging.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 01:36:01PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Do you think it's possible that we might have to deal with a single PCI host
> that is connected two different SMMU instances for the purposes of extending
> the StreamID space from 15 to 16 bits? I think we would have trouble
> expressing this with the current syntax.

Unfortunately, this sounds like something we may well have to support.
Whilst the SMMUv2 architecture did grow a late extension to support 16-bit
StreamIDs, that may have been too late for all silicon vendors and, as such,
I'm not confident that such systems will present a single software interface
for their SMMU.

Will



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