From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:34:01 -0800 Message-ID: <4B981049.3040607@kernel.org> References: <1268256267-3769-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1268256267-3769-7-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20100310.133035.84824445.davem@davemloft.net> <20100310.133321.134330563.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:52786 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932128Ab0CJVfJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:35:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100310.133321.134330563.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: David Miller Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On 03/10/2010 01:33 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: David Miller > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:30:35 -0800 (PST) > >> From: Yinghai Lu >> 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 >> >> Why? What does early_res/fw_memmap do that lmb cannot? try to remove bootmem layer. > > Also, if you're going to use this on non-x86 systems you're > going to have to get rid of "e820" from the interface names. sure. Yinghai