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SubjectRe: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before slab
On 01/04/2010 09:48 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> From: "Yinghai Lu <yingai@kernrel.org>"
>>
>> please check the patches regarding with early_res and bootmem
>>
>> and at last it will make use early_res instead of bootmem with x86 64bits
>>
>> the first two are needed for some amd_bus.c/intel_bus.c cleaning up patches too.
>> so put other x86/pci related into this series
>> hope that is ok to Jesse.
>>
>> -v2: allocate vmemmap on one node together, and also seperate early_res
>
> The point of this patchset is what?
>
> Avoid use of bootmem altogether by x86 bootstrap? If so why?
>

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0910.3/01432.html

YH


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