Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:57:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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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.
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