From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:21:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077139308.4479.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402182006.i1IK6CsS022562@hera.kernel.org>
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 20:44, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> The ugliest part is probably the swiotlb code. In fact the code for
> that is not even included, but just reused from IA64. swiotlb
> implements the PCI DMA API using bounce buffering. I don't like this at
> all, but there was no other way to support non DAC capable hardware
> (like IDE or USB) on machines with >3GB. Please redirect all flames for
> that to the Intel chipset designers.
ehm... so why on earth did Intel cripple this new platform?????
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-18 21:22 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-18 21:21 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-02-18 22:57 ` [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-18 23:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
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2004-02-19 0:05 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2004-02-19 9:36 ` David Weinehall
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2004-02-19 22:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-20 4:03 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2004-02-20 4:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-20 7:48 ` Jes Sorensen
2004-02-21 2:07 ` David Mosberger
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