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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig index 5c9aaed589a5..5cf941774347 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig @@ -755,11 +755,22 @@ config DMAR depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL default y help - DMA remapping(DMAR) devices support enables independent address - translations for Direct Memory Access(DMA) from Devices. + DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address + translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables - and includes pci device scope covered by these DMA - remapping device. + and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA + remapping devices. + +config DMAR_GFX_WA + bool "Support for Graphics workaround" + depends on DMAR + default y + help + Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address + for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config + option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for + all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue + to use physical addresses for DMA. source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" |
