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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
	Zhao Forrest <forrest.zhao@gmail.com>,
	discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: Does Linux have plan to support memory hole remapping?
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:51:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abk2nqxb.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207787687.30698.97.camel@localhost> (Kasper Sandberg's message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:34:47 +0200")

Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> writes:

> A somewhat related question is.. How come linux does not(as i understand
> it) support talking to the chipsets to do these things? wouldnt this
> also give other benefits, such as being able to more precisely control
> interrupts and stuff?

Linux is an portable operating system and not a hardware specific BIOS. So it
prefers to not know about some things.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09  7:54 Does Linux have plan to support memory hole remapping? Zhao Forrest
2008-04-09  8:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09  8:37   ` Matti Aarnio
2008-04-09  8:49     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09  8:54     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-09  9:03       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-10  0:34       ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-04-10  2:09         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-10 12:41           ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-04-10  6:51         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-09  9:04   ` Zhao Forrest
2008-04-09  9:13     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-10  6:51       ` Zhao Forrest
2008-04-10  7:22         ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09  9:50   ` Arne Georg Gleditsch
2008-04-09 10:03     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 10:16       ` Arne Georg Gleditsch
2008-04-09 18:02       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-09 13:34     ` Lennart Sorensen

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