Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - hook it in

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 18:30, Jon Mason wrote:

> We have a recent modification to this chunk which does both generic and
> em64t.  Since IBM only ships this chip on em64t systems, have the option
> on amd64 seems wrong.

Please read again what I wrote.

> Because we need to know the size of the translation tables early, so
> that we can alloc them from bootmem.

But __setup is parsed during the bootmem phase too. early arguments are only
needed for things called by setup_arch

-Andi
 
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