Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:56:29 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402231335430.3005@ppc970.osdl.org> By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > I'm really happy Intel finally got with the program, > > > > With the program? They still don't have an IOMMU ;) > > Hmm.. Let's see what their chipsets will look like for this thing. Since > they don't have an integrated memory controller, they can't very well do > the IOMMU on the CPU, now can they? > > So you can't blame them for that. >
No, it should be in the northbridge. Note that *most* AGPGARTs work as IOMMUs, but not all. They may not be 64 bits, though.
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