Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw_memmap.c | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:01:23 +1100 |
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On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:28 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Those early_res patches were posted all over on lkml, it was literally > hundreds of difficult patches, and now, months down the line, after we've > tested and upstreamed it (with many nasty regressions fixed on x86 during the > development of it) you come with a rigid "do it some other way, convert all of > x86 over again or else" position.
There's an easy solution here. Leave that gunk in arch/x86 where it belongs and if you want to unify things a bit, then do it at the -API- level only, and leave the implementation where it is.
> I really wish non-x86 architectures apprecitated (and helped) the core kernel > work x86 is doing, because it is subsidizing non-x86 architectures all the > time.
I'm not even going to bother replying to that one
Ben.
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