Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:09:04 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7 |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Silly question. Given that even writing to this table is platform specific. > Any chance we can do this any a userspace utility writing through /dev/mem > for the systems that need it? We can even bundle the utility in the kexec-tools > package to make it easier to distribute. >
I would prefer this to an in-kernel solution. I really feel this is too ugly to live.
-hpa
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