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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:47:17 +1100
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On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 14:36 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> LMB could do this too with minor modifications.
> 
> Simply make the lmb.memory and lmb.reserved be pointers, and initially
> they point into the static array(s).
> 
> Later the pointers can be repositioned to point to dynamically
> allocated memory.
> 
> So please, for the third time, please show me how LMB with some minor
> modifications is not able to satisfy your needs. 

So I was about to say the exact same stuff here...

Cheers,
Ben.