On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > Linus's favourite jokes about powerpc mmu being crippled forever, aside ;) > > This seems like just speculation. I would not be against something which, > without, would "cripple" some relevant hardware, but you are just handwaving > at this point. And you are still ignoring the alternatives.
This crippling also applies to IA64. The crippling is a concern of multiple arches and its effects have been well documented. Talk to Peter Chubb for example. The requirement is to be able to do I/O to large contiguous sections of memory. Your proposals are ignoring the requirements. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
