Re: [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT)

[Chris Leech]

> But we need a special driver ?
> The IOAT driver from intel seems to expect a pci device (0x8086 0x1a38)
> and the common x86 computer have their dma in lpc/isa bridge.

It's really about bringing the concept of a generic DMA engine up to
date with modern system design in order to make it useful for I/O
offload.  This is a new descriptor programed memory copy engine that
shows up as a PCI Express device integrated into the MCH.

- Chris
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