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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Mark.Zhan" <rongkai.zhan@windriver.com>
Cc: Alex Gonzalez <langabe@gmail.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Boot time memory allocation
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:35:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060510153526.GC11961@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44614E0F.2000207@windriver.com>

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:21:03AM +0800, Mark.Zhan wrote:

> >At kernel initialization time just don't tell the kernel about the
> >existence of your memory region.  For many systems that just means you
> >shrink the memory region passed to the add_memory_region() call to
> >something that suits your platform.

> Maybe it is a more flexible way to specify the memory regions via 
> command line. You know, this will produce User-defined memory regions to 
> kernel.

Maybe for a specific application or platform.  For a sourcebase like
linux-mips.org's with a very large number of users on sometimes very
complex platforms I'd never ever think of exposing such details.

  Ralf

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-10 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09 14:35 Boot time memory allocation Alex Gonzalez
2006-05-09 16:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-05-10  2:21   ` Mark.Zhan
2006-05-10  9:11     ` Alex Gonzalez
2006-05-12  0:41       ` SOAP Ratin
2006-05-12  0:41         ` SOAP Ratin
2006-05-12  7:08         ` SOAP Leon Zhang
2006-05-12  7:50         ` SOAP Ralf Roesch
2006-05-10 15:35     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]

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