Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:06:58 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge |
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David Mosberger-Tang wrote: >>>>>>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.
Doesn't need it? Does that mean the Win64 uses bounce buffers for everything? Or am I totally misreading this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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