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All RISC-V platforms today lack an IOMMU. However, legacy PCI devices sometimes require DMA-memory to be in the low 32 bits. To make this work, we enable the software-based bounce buffers from swiotlb. They only impose overhead when the device in question cannot address the full 64-bit address space, so a perfect fit. This patch assumes that DMA is coherent with the processor and the PCI bus. It also assumes that the processor and devices share a common address space. This is true for all RISC-V platforms so far. [changelog stolen from an earlier patch by Palmer Dabbelt that did the more complicated swiotlb wireup before the recent consolidation] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.