From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:47:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:26319 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133495AbWGIWqw (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:46:52 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k69MkvgW020630; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:46:57 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k69MksxT020625; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:46:54 +0100 Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:46:53 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Franck Bui-Huu Cc: Atsushi Nemoto , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparsemem fix Message-ID: <20060709224653.GA20598@linux-mips.org> References: <20060705.012244.96686002.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <44AB79D0.90002@innova-card.com> <20060705.192054.128618288.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> <20060706173235.GA4739@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11959 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:47:39PM +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > but the code seems to be in arch/mips/sgi-ip27, no ? > > BTW, Ralf, are there any needs for MIPS to support platforms whose > memory start is not 0 ? I have made a patch for that, and wondering if > it's worth to post it on the list... Yes, while it's relativly rare such platforms do exist and they currently pay the price of wasting some memory for the allocation of unused entries in mem_map[]. Ralf