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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge
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Followup to:  <1077139308.4479.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
By author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 20:44, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
>
> > The ugliest part is probably the swiotlb code. In fact the code for
> > that is not even included, but just reused from IA64. swiotlb
> > implements the PCI DMA API using bounce buffering. I don't like this at
> > all, but there was no other way to support non DAC capable hardware
> > (like IDE or USB) on machines with >3GB. Please redirect all flames for
> > that to the Intel chipset designers.
>
> ehm... so why on earth did Intel cripple this new platform?????
>

Because they were caught by surprise and just hacked the chips they
had in the pipeline, presumably.

-hpa
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