Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge

[David Mosberger-Tang]

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:40:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

  Arjan> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 23:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
  >>  Because they were caught by surprise and just hacked the chips
  >> they had in the pipeline, presumably.

  Arjan> fair enough; I hope this means the next generation has this
  Arjan> wart fixed...

I wouldn't hold my breath.  My impression was that the Intel chipset
folks don't want I/O MMU because (a) Windows doesn't need it and (b)
real machines use (close-to-)64-bit-capable hardware.

	--david
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