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From: Stephen Rothwell on 6 Mar 2010 20:50 Hi Paul, On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:03:27 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus(a)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(a)canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
From: Russell King on 7 Mar 2010 04:20
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:03:27PM +1100, Paul Mackerras 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? It would be nice if this stuff was copied to linux-arch since it impacts all architectures. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |