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From: eric.y.miao@gmail.com (Eric Miao)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/9] ARM: pxa: enable sparsemem in saarb
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 14:48:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=2VfUTb3ne3LtTa851roJXZeg1CA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110401183325.GB8482@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:10:52PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Haojian Zhuang <hzhuang1@marvell.com> wrote:
>> > If I use HIGHMEM now, our some drivers and apps should be changed also. We don't want to change them.
>>
>> I don't understand this will cause side effects to other drivers and apps?
>
> If they're not using kmap_atomic() but are dealing directly with
> page addresses, they'll fail if the pages are coming from highmem.
>
> Given Linus' complaints in the OMAP pull request thread, I think we
> should refuse, and have the drivers fixed to work with highmem.
>

That's what I thought as well.

Haojian,

Please work on enabling highmem, anything that's going to prevent
us from having a single kernel binary, will just make the situation
worse. Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-02  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-04-01  2:39 ` [PATCH 1/9] ARM: pxa: add clk_set_rate() Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39   ` [PATCH 2/9] ARM: pxa: enable sparsemem in saarb Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39     ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: mmp: remove redundant macro definition in mfp Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39       ` [PATCH 4/9] ARM: pxa: use gpio reset Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39         ` [PATCH 5/9] ARM: mmp: set correct uart according to board Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39           ` [PATCH 6/9] ARM: mmp: update the reset implementation Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39             ` [PATCH 7/9] ARM: pxa: align NR_BUILTIN_GPIO with GPIO interrupt number Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39               ` [PATCH 8/9] ARM: mmp: align NR_BUILTIN_GPIO with gpio " Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  2:39                 ` [PATCH 9/9] ARM: mmp: enable max7312 gpio expander in dkb Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01 18:36                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05  7:14                     ` Eric Miao
2011-04-01 18:35         ` [PATCH 4/9] ARM: pxa: use gpio reset Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-03 10:39         ` Igor Grinberg
2011-04-01  4:51       ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: mmp: remove redundant macro definition in mfp Eric Miao
2011-04-01  5:09         ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  5:31           ` Eric Miao
2011-04-01  5:45             ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  6:47               ` Eric Miao
2011-04-01  3:45     ` [PATCH 2/9] ARM: pxa: enable sparsemem in saarb Eric Miao
2011-04-01  4:35       ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-01  5:10         ` Eric Miao
2011-04-01 18:33           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-02  6:48             ` Eric Miao [this message]
2011-04-01 18:31     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-01  3:36   ` [PATCH 1/9] ARM: pxa: add clk_set_rate() Eric Miao

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