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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:06:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40353382.8010505@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1qK5k-7g2-65@gated-at.bofh.it>

David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
>>>>>>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:40:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl> said:
> 
> 
>   Arjan> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 23:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>   >>  Because they were caught by surprise and just hacked the chips
>   >> they had in the pipeline, presumably.
> 
>   Arjan> fair enough; I hope this means the next generation has this
>   Arjan> wart fixed...
> 
> I wouldn't hold my breath.  My impression was that the Intel chipset
> folks don't want I/O MMU because (a) Windows doesn't need it and (b)
> real machines use (close-to-)64-bit-capable hardware.

Doesn't need it? Does that mean the Win64 uses bounce buffers for 
everything? Or am I totally misreading this?

       reply	other threads:[~2004-02-19 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1qK5k-7g2-67@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1qK5k-7g2-69@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1qK5k-7g2-71@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1qK5k-7g2-73@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <1qK5k-7g2-65@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-19 22:06         ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-02-20  4:03           ` [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge David Mosberger-Tang
2004-02-20  4:19           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-20  7:48             ` Jes Sorensen
2004-02-21  2:07               ` David Mosberger
     [not found] <1qHr5-2tJ-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1qHr5-2tJ-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1qIZw-6b9-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1qJsI-6Be-57@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-19  0:05       ` David Mosberger-Tang
2004-02-19  9:36         ` David Weinehall
     [not found] <200402182006.i1IK6CsS022562@hera.kernel.org>
2004-02-18 21:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-18 22:57   ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-18 23:16     ` Arjan van de Ven

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