linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] IA64 Compilation Error Fix for Intel IOMMU Identity Mapping Support

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906251459320.3605@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:00:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
cc:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	fenghua.yu@...el.com, chrisw@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IA64 Compilation Error Fix for Intel IOMMU Identity
 Mapping Support



On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 08:11 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > It raises the question: Why are we using firmware-specific interfaces to
> > list the available memory -- can't we get that from somewhere _generic_?
> > 
> > The less we tie our code to these crappy BIOS, EFI and ACPI interfaces,
> > the better off we'll be.
> 
> Does this work everywhere... ?

Whimper.

Please pleas please please.. Pretty please, let this work (instead of 
duplicating the insanity).

		Linus


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