Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] mspec - special memory driver and do_no_pfn handler | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:58:09 +1100 |
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> Quite frankly, I don't think nopfn() is a good interface. It's only usable > for one single thing, so trying to claim that it's a generic VM op is > really not valid. If (and that's a big if) we need this interface, we > should just do it inside mm/memory.c instead of playing games as if it was > generic.
Or just use sparsemem and create struct pages for your hw :) we do that for SPUs on Cell, works like a charm.
Ben.
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