From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: simplify HIGHMEM-related Kconfig entries
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:18:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116211849.GB10063@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4970D04C.9080104@zytor.com>
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> If so, what would be the difference between HIGHMEM4G and HIGHMEM64G in
>>> that case at all?
>>
>> For example being able to select the DMADEVICES config option.
>
> WTF?! Why would DMA device support be banned on HIGHMEM64G? That makes
> no sense whatsoever...
yes - but i guess the point is that there is some assymetry there which
needs to be investigated and fixed.
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 12:31 Jan Beulich
2009-01-14 19:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 8:53 ` Jan Beulich
2009-01-15 8:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15 17:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-16 11:57 ` Jan Beulich
2009-01-16 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-16 21:18 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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