From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw_memmap.cy Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:32:57 +1100 Message-ID: <1269423177.8599.214.camel@pasglop> References: <4BA80019.5000900@kernel.org> <4BA813A4.1010704@kernel.org> <4BA8594F.8090205@kernel.org> <20100323080252.GA4848@elte.hu> <4BA883C0.2070102@kernel.org> <20100323094834.GB4576@elte.hu> <1269404982.8599.148.camel@pasglop> <1269405882.8599.155.camel@pasglop> <20100324090031.GA23804@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:50966 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750962Ab0CXJeK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:34:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100324090031.GA23804@elte.hu> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , David Miller , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , hpa@zytor.com, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 10:00 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I'm a bit too flat out right now to write code, but if there's no objection, > > I might give that a go either later this week or next week, see if I can > > replace bootmem on powerpc. > > That would be fantastic! PowerPC and x86 both doing it would give it enough of > a critical mass to make the removal of bootmem realistic. >From the look of it, I wont' have any bandwidth this week tho ... but let's keep that as a plan for moving forward and who gets to do it first wins a free beer at the next conference :-) Cheers, Ben.