Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:05:22PM -0800, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:40:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl> 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.

Does Windows(-users) really need anything more than ever-more advanced
graphics-adapters with ever-more buggy drivers and ever-faster CPU's,
both to support their ever-more advanced and mind numbing games.  Oh,
and ever-bigger hard disks to hold their ever-growing collections of
mp3's and movies that they probably don't even listen to/watch...

Yeeshh...

Some day maybe even manufactors of Intel hardware might start to create
intelligent, thought through hardware, but I seriously doubt it.


Regards: David Weinehall
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