RE: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.0 Status update

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> >  * Intel would get the standard s/w iommu working (just a case of 
> > ensuring we have a machine contiguous aperture beloe 4GB -- 
> the Linux 
> > code currently uses the boot mem allocator rather than using 
> > alloc_coherent, so it will need a little tweaking)
> 
> Yeah, i haven't had much luck so far.

I don't really understand why the aperture is allocated so early. I
suspect its not actually used until the normal bootmem allocator is up. 

The slightly more fundamental problem is that we need a <4GB allocation
zone in Xen, but since allocating the apperture is only currently an
issue for dom0 it won't actually be a problem in practice. (something we
need to address before driver domains come back)

Ian

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