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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:17:57 -0800 (PST)
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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:10:22 -0800

> On 03/10/2010 01:36 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> And LMB cannot fill this void with some minor modifications?
> 
> early_res array could be increased automatically...
> 
> could be something like:
> keep lmb.memory part, and use early_res for reserved parts...

LMB has a reserved region.

I still have yet to see any fundamental reason why LMB
cannot, all by itself, be used to solve this problem too.