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Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:35:48 +0200
From:	Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
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2005/9/30, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Franck wrote:
>
> > > > > IP27 currently the only system that absolutely needs discontiguous
> > > > > memory in order to work at all.  A few other systems could make use of
> > > > > discontiguous memory to reduce the waste of memory - the family of
> > > > > Broadcom SB1 based systems comes to mind.
> > > >
> > > > Isn't discontiguous memory common for embedded system as well ? I
> > > > thought so...Anyways can we make discontiguous memory thing move into
> > > > generic MIPS code so every future needs for that will profit ? I
> > > > looked at other arch, and they seem to implement it that way (in
> > > > arch/xxx/mm/discontig.c).
> > >
> > > Yes, that would be a good thing.  There are several platforms that could
> > > make good use of discontiguous memory support such as Broadcom's Sibyte
> > > SoCs with their insanely large hole in the memory map but also others.
> > >
> >
> > Ok I'll try to do that soon (maybe in 1 or 2 weeks). I looked at the
> > ARM's code and I should be able to do the same on MIPS. Should I keep
> > IP27 data structure and code although ARM's ones seem to be easier to
> > understand ?
>
> The IP27 code is a little obscure which partly is explained by it's age;
> it's been the first NUMA system to be supported in Linux.  After a
> quick look the ARM code seems a little to simple to deal with such a
> system, so I suggest you take a look at arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c instead.
>

Ok, I'll do that.

Thanks
--
               Franck