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Re: [Xen-devel] AMD IOMMU status

To: Andrew Oakley <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] AMD IOMMU status
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:44:04 +0000
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AMD are actively working on it. Most recent committed patch specifically for
AMD IOMMU support was mid December.

 -- Keir

On 08/01/2010 00:10, "Andrew Oakley" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There seem to be a lot of commits and discussion about VT-d support,
> however there seems to be very little activity regarding device
> passthrough using the AMD IOMMU.  Is it "done", lacking a mantainer,
> or never going to work?
> 
> A quick google showed that 8 series chipsets for desktop are likely to
> be released very soon (looks like it is only the 8 series that have the
> relevant IOMMU).  I'm not sure if any other hardware is required for
> passthrough, does anyone know if there is anything special about the
> CPU?
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