Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol

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To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, <andi@...>, <mingo@...>, <tglx@...>, Paul Jackson <pj@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Friday, March 28, 2008 - 2:31 am

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:33:27PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:

Likely not. That would require huge hardware overhead for all the
comparators to handle variable ranges.  Much easier to just use some higher bits 
in the address to index nodes.

-Andi
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