Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:33:21 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem | From | David Miller <> |
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:30:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:24:27 -0800 > >> use early_res/fw_memmap to replace lmb, so could use early_res replace bootme >> later. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> > > Why? What does early_res/fw_memmap do that lmb cannot?
Also, if you're going to use this on non-x86 systems you're going to have to get rid of "e820" from the interface names.
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