Re: [PATCH v2] IA64 Compilation Error Fix for Intel IOMMU IdentityMapping Support

[Linus Torvalds]

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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