From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>, Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>,
Mika Penttil? <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Subject: Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 06:08:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040107060842.GA22884@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401062203040.12602@home.osdl.org>
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Why on earth would you want to call PNPBIOS on AMD64 anyway ?
>
> For the same reason normal PC's still like to: no technical reason, except
> for the fact that system vendors like to hide bugs and quirks by having
> magic stuff in ACPI or PnPBIOS to tell the OS "hands off" or "this is how
> to route this strange irq".
But PNPBIOS is an ISA relic isn't it ?
No amd64 system I know of even has an ISA bus.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-01-06 3:32 ` PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 3:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 4:05 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 5:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 8:12 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 9:11 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-06 9:44 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 10:16 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-06 10:49 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 15:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 15:37 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-06 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 22:29 ` Adam Belay
2004-01-07 4:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 5:02 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-07 5:55 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-07 6:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 6:08 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-01-07 6:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 6:51 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-07 2:43 ` Adam Belay
2004-01-07 8:32 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-06 22:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 4:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 15:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 17:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-08 19:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 9:31 ` Russell King
2004-01-07 15:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-07 20:29 ` Russell King
2004-01-06 22:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-05 20:07 David Hinds
2004-01-05 23:00 ` Russell King
2004-01-05 23:45 ` David Hinds
2004-01-06 0:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 0:44 ` David Hinds
2004-01-06 1:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-06 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
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