Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:10:22 -0800 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem |
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On 03/10/2010 01:36 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:34:01 -0800 > >> On 03/10/2010 01:33 PM, David Miller wrote: >>> 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? >> >> try to remove bootmem layer. > > And LMB cannot fill this void with some minor modifications?
early_res array could be increased automatically...
could be something like: keep lmb.memory part, and use early_res for reserved parts...
maybe could try to make fw_memmap.c more simple.
Yinghai
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