Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 20:44, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:

> 	The ugliest part is probably the swiotlb code.  In fact the code for
> 	that is not even included, but just reused from IA64.  swiotlb
> 	implements the PCI DMA API using bounce buffering.  I don't like this at
> 	all, but there was no other way to support non DAC capable hardware
> 	(like IDE or USB) on machines with >3GB.  Please redirect all flames for
> 	that to the Intel chipset designers.

ehm... so why on earth did Intel cripple this new platform?????

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