IOMMU

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Episode #9: Keeping Drivers Under Control [Videos]
David Stewart talks about why devise driver stability is important for running your mission critical applications on Solaris or OpenSolaris, then he delves into the technologies that provide tons of s ...

Posted: 2008-10-20 13:09:18 by David Stewart (Intel), Jerry Makare (Intel)
cpu, Open Solaris, Intel Xeon, Open Sourcec Community, Open Source Technology, Intel Open Source Software, Devise Drivers, Direct Memory Access, IOMMU, IO Memory Management Unit, VT-D, Intel Platform, Solaris OS, David Stewart, Enterprise Software, Sun Microsystems, OpenSolaris, Optimizing Solaris, Solaris 10
OpenSolaris and Intel Video - Keeping Drivers under Control [Blogs]
One of the cool things we have added to OpenSolaris recently is a capability which strengthens the whole foundation of stability on which the OS and processor rests. It does this by addressing one of ...

Posted: 2008-10-31 14:57:13 by David Stewart (Intel)
IOMMU, VT-D, "open source", Virtualization Technology, OpenSolaris, Solaris
Sun + Intel + OpenSolaris + 2 Years = The Year of Core [Blogs]
Today is the second anniversary of the Sun and Intel joint agreement to optimize the Solaris operating system for Intel Xeon processors. Like last year, when I wrote this summary of our work, I decid ...

Posted: 2009-01-22 23:02:24 by David Stewart (Intel)
virtualization, power management, Threading Building Blocks, SSE, IOMMU, Intel Core Microarchitecture, ACPI, OpenSolaris, IOAT, DTrace, new instructions, NUMA, Xen, xVM, Dunnington, Fault Management Architecture, Intel Centrino2 processor, Intel Xeon processor, powertop, x2APIC, Wireless, FMA, Nehalem, Solaris, visual computing
Intel's Virtualization for Directed I/O (a.k.a IOMMU) Part 1 [Blogs]
IOMMU's or Input/Output Memory Management Unit is a new entrant to the x86 world. This is something which has existed in the risc based systems for quite some time. You can get a brief introduction on ...

Posted: 2009-03-02 22:50:36 by Ashok Raj (Intel)
IOMMU, VT-D, Solaris