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| author | FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> | 2010-08-10 18:03:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-11 08:59:21 -0700 |
| commit | c31e74c4c34fa863393c28b95409aee934b4f8e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bff4a33f83457b7fe0f4222def85db9df7b645a /Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | |
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Documentation: DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: add multiple types of IOMMUs support
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index 98ce51796f71..3c4e07123e59 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -753,6 +753,16 @@ to "Closing". alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit objects). +3) Supporting multiple types of IOMMUs + + If your architecture needs to support multiple types of IOMMUs, you + can use include/linux/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h. It's a + library to support the DMA API with multiple types of IOMMUs. Lots + of architectures (x86, powerpc, sh, alpha, ia64, microblaze and + sparc) use it. Choose one to see how it can be used. If you need to + support multiple types of IOMMUs in a single system, the example of + x86 or powerpc helps. + Closing This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current |