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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:48:40 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc
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>>>>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:35:16 -0700, Christopher Wedgwood <cw@sgi.com> said:

  Christopher> That sounds pretty good.  Even a naive bitmap allocator
  Christopher> would probably work initially.  Might we ever want to
  Christopher> allocate 2+ pages?  Forcing all allocations to be a
  Christopher> single page makes many things easier.

The allocation granularity should be bytes, in my opinion.  The point
of the UC allocator is so that we can share a single 64MB UC granule
across the multiple users (of which there are a grand total of 2, at
the moment...).

	--david