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

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From: Andi Kleen <andi@...>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, <andi@...>, <mingo@...>, <tglx@...>, Paul Jackson <pj@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol
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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[PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct setup_..., Huang, Ying, (Thu Mar 27, 10:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct se..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Mar 28, 4:50 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct se..., Yinghai Lu, (Fri Mar 28, 1:33 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct se..., Paul Jackson, (Fri Mar 28, 9:36 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct se..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Mar 28, 9:44 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct se..., Paul Jackson, (Fri Mar 28, 11:43 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked listof struct se..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Mar 28, 2:31 am)