Re: acpi patch in 2.4.6

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 16:25:31 EST

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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> 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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