From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Allow either FLATMEM or SPARSEMEM on the multi-v7 build
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:48:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33276667.aYDcK8dzCe@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtm3G5sUHY8+DLoUEFPtCqj7JBujGbM3FGEWQHje53TV2x5vg@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 31 October 2014 13:12:46 Gregory Fong wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ARMv7 chips with LPAE can often benefit from SPARSEMEM, as portions of
> > system memory can be located deep in the 36-bit address space. Allow
> > FLATMEM or SPARSEMEM to be selectable at compile time; FLATMEM remains
> > the default.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
>
> Acked-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com>
>
Looking at the patch now, I see no reason why this should be tied to
ARMv7. Are there any problems we'd expect enabling it for all of
ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-31 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 2:22 [PATCH 1/3] ARM: Add default SPARSEMEM settings Kevin Cernekee
2014-09-12 2:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: Remove redundant ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT setting Kevin Cernekee
2014-10-31 20:12 ` Gregory Fong
2014-09-12 2:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Allow either FLATMEM or SPARSEMEM on the multi-v7 build Kevin Cernekee
2014-10-31 20:12 ` Gregory Fong
2014-10-31 20:48 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-10-31 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: Add default SPARSEMEM settings Gregory Fong
2014-10-31 20:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-10-31 21:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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