Re: Does Linux have plan to support memory hole remapping?

From: Kasper Sandberg
Date: Thu Apr 10 2008 - 08:43:18 EST


On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:09 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> > A somewhat related question is.. How come linux does not(as i understand
> > it) support talking to the chipsets to do these things? wouldnt this
> > also give other benefits, such as being able to more precisely control
> > interrupts and stuff?
>
> Sure. Plus, it's virtually guaranteed to crash or corrupt your system
> if you try to do anything which requires ACPI or SMM.
Ah, i just thought that a specific other OS actually did this (which,
now that you mention this, makes a whole lot of sense :-))
>
> -hpa
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