Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266140AbUAGGKb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:10:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266141AbUAGGKb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:10:31 -0500 Received: from delerium.codemonkey.org.uk ([81.187.208.145]:39090 "EHLO delerium.codemonkey.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266140AbUAGGKY (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:10:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 06:08:43 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , Adam Belay , Mika Penttil? , Andi Kleen , David Hinds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "Grover, Andrew" Subject: Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM Message-ID: <20040107060842.GA22884@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Adam Belay , Mika Penttil? , Andi Kleen , David Hinds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "Grover, Andrew" References: <3FFA7BB9.1030803@kolumbus.fi> <20040106094442.GB44540@colin2.muc.de> <20040106153706.GA63471@colin2.muc.de> <20040106222959.GA3188@neo.rr.com> <20040107050256.GA4351@colin2.muc.de> <20040107055557.GA13812@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 19 On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Why on earth would you want to call PNPBIOS on AMD64 anyway ? > > For the same reason normal PC's still like to: no technical reason, except > for the fact that system vendors like to hide bugs and quirks by having > magic stuff in ACPI or PnPBIOS to tell the OS "hands off" or "this is how > to route this strange irq". But PNPBIOS is an ISA relic isn't it ? No amd64 system I know of even has an ISA bus. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/