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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from
 e820.c to fw_memmap.cy
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:43:57 +1100
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On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 22:54 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> if the array can be doubled and have old one copied to new one. 
> then we don't change lmb.c too much.
> 
> new early_res.c exend lmb. and another half already works with x86 to
> replace bootmem.
> 
> will check if i can produce one patch to make powerpc to reuse
> early_res/nobootmem

While at it, can you rename early_res to something that doesn't
suck ? :-)

Cheers,
Ben.