On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:29:51AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Right now, that isn't a lot of people in x86 land, but your patch > > encumbers drivers for non-x86 archs with an additional call to access > > space that they've never had a problem with. > > lets say s/x86/x86, IA64 and architectures that use intel, amd or via > chipsets/
Umm .. ia64 already does exactly what I'm proposing for x86. It uses one SAL interface for bytes below 256 and a different SAL interface for bytes 256-4095. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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/
