Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:21:04 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce mips_late_time_init |
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Running everything from late_time_init() instead allows the use of kmalloc. > X86 has the same issue with requiring kmalloc in time_init which is why > they had moved everything to late_time_init.
It's more ioremap, but yeah.
> So the real question is, why can't we just move the call of time_init() > in setup_kernel() to where late_time_init() is getting called from for > all architectures, does anything rely on it getting called early?
That's a good question and I asked it myself already. I can't see a real reason why something would need it early. Definitely worth to try.
Thanks,
tglx
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