* Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default
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@ 2010-03-07 1:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-03-07 1:03 ` Paul Mackerras
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From: Paul Mackerras @ 2010-03-07 1:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Yinghai Lu, Greg Thelen, H. Peter Anvin, Thomas Gleixner,
Ingo Molnar, Johannes Weiner, linux-mm, linux-kernel, linux-arch
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?
Paul.
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* Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default
2010-03-07 1:03 ` please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default Paul Mackerras
@ 2010-03-07 1:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-03-07 1:48 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-07 9:16 ` Russell King
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From: Paul Mackerras @ 2010-03-07 1:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Yinghai Lu, Greg Thelen, H. Peter Anvin, Thomas Gleixner,
Ingo Molnar, Johannes Weiner, linux-mm, linux-kernel, linux-arch
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?
Paul.
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* Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default
2010-03-07 1:03 ` please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default Paul Mackerras
2010-03-07 1:03 ` Paul Mackerras
@ 2010-03-07 1:48 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-07 9:16 ` Russell King
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Rothwell @ 2010-03-07 1:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Andrew Morton, Yinghai Lu, Greg Thelen, H. Peter Anvin,
Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Johannes Weiner, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, linux-arch
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Hi Paul,
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:03:27 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus@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").
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Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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* Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default
2010-03-07 1:03 ` please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default Paul Mackerras
2010-03-07 1:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-03-07 1:48 ` Stephen Rothwell
@ 2010-03-07 9:16 ` Russell King
2010-03-07 9:16 ` Russell King
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Russell King @ 2010-03-07 9:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Andrew Morton, Yinghai Lu, Greg Thelen, H. Peter Anvin,
Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Johannes Weiner, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, linux-arch
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.
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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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* Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default
2010-03-07 9:16 ` Russell King
@ 2010-03-07 9:16 ` Russell King
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Russell King @ 2010-03-07 9:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Andrew Morton, Yinghai Lu, Greg Thelen, H. Peter Anvin,
Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Johannes Weiner, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, linux-arch
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:
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