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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c
 to fw_memmap.cy
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:04:36 -0700
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On 03/22/2010 05:45 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> B1;2005;0cYinghai,
>>
>> to make x86 to use lmb, we need to extend lmb to have find_early_area.
> 
> Why ?

unless you want to dump two users of find_e820_area_size()

YH