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DateWed, 18 Jun 2008 22:09:04 -0700
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7
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


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