linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7

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Message-ID: <4859E9F0.6010001@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:09:04 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7

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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