Re: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jun 19 2008 - 01:23:17 EST


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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