Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:48:26 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default |
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Hi Paul,
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:03:27 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:22:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Earlier, Johannes wrote > > > > : Humm, now that is a bit disappointing. Because it means we will never > > : get rid of bootmem as long as it works for the other architectures. > > : And your changeset just added ~900 lines of code, some of it being a > > : rather ugly compatibility layer in bootmem that I hoped could go away > > : again sooner than later. > > Whoa! Who's proposing to get rid of bootmem, and why?
I assume that is the point of the "early_res" work already in Linus' tree starting from commit 27811d8cabe56e0c3622251b049086f49face4ff ("x86: Move range related operation to one file").
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |