From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756115AbYFSFXP (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:23:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751462AbYFSFXA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:23:00 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47024 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751435AbYFSFW7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:22:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4859E9F0.6010001@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:09:04 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Yinghai Lu , Len Brown , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7 References: <200805041823.57198.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <200805191252.36814.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <200805251600.26325.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <200806011317.38622.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <86802c440806181532g348864e1u3d067f8366046a7f@mail.gmail.com> <86802c440806181749g2faf1892iea693717ea919631@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Silly question. Given that even writing to this table is platform specific. > Any chance we can do this any a userspace utility writing through /dev/mem > for the systems that need it? We can even bundle the utility in the kexec-tools > package to make it easier to distribute. > I would prefer this to an in-kernel solution. I really feel this is too ugly to live. -hpa