Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator

Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06T13:30:23Z

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:33:48AM +0800, Greentime Hu wrote:
> Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 於 2018年9月6日 週四 上午12:04寫道：
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > These patches switch early memory managment to use memblock directly
> > without any bootmem compatibility wrappers. As the result both bootmem and
> > nobootmem are removed.
> >
> > There are still a couple of things to sort out, the most important is the
> > removal of bootmem usage in MIPS.
> >
> > Still, IMHO, the series is in sufficient state to post and get the early
> > feedback.
> >
> > The patches are build-tested with defconfig for most architectures (I
> > couldn't find a compiler for nds32 and unicore32) and boot-tested on x86
> > VM.
> >
> Hi Mike,
>
> There are nds32 toolchains.
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/8.1.0/x86_64-gcc-8.1.0-nolibc-nds32le-linux.tar.gz
> https://github.com/vincentzwc/prebuilt-nds32-toolchain/releases/download/20180521/nds32le-linux-glibc-v3-upstream.tar.gz

Thanks!

> Sorry, we have no qemu yet.
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.