Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge | From | David Mosberger-Tang <> | Date | 18 Feb 2004 16:05:22 -0800 |
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>>>>> 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.
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