Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Does Linux have plan to support memory hole remapping? | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:41:36 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:09 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > A somewhat related question is.. How come linux does not(as i understand > > it) support talking to the chipsets to do these things? wouldnt this > > also give other benefits, such as being able to more precisely control > > interrupts and stuff? > > Sure. Plus, it's virtually guaranteed to crash or corrupt your system > if you try to do anything which requires ACPI or SMM. Ah, i just thought that a specific other OS actually did this (which, now that you mention this, makes a whole lot of sense :-)) > > -hpa > -- > 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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