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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem
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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:24:27 -0800

> use early_res/fw_memmap to replace lmb, so could use early_res replace bootme
> later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

Why?  What does early_res/fw_memmap do that lmb cannot?