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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:25:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: acpi patch in 2.4.6
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> How is the following chunk taken from patch-2.4.6 ever going to work ?

Because ACPI physical addresses are _physical_ memory addresses, and we
have a 1:1 mapping for most of them (notably the BIOS extended areas).

		Linus

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