Re: [PATCH 0/7] Sparsemem Virtual Memmap V5

Russell King
2007-07-14T08:57:54Z

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:23:20AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Well without this we cannot perform the cleanup of the miscellaneous
> memory models around. The longer this is held up the longer the discontig
> etc will stay in the tree with all the associated #ifdeffery.

It would also be nice to convert ARM to using sparsemem rather than
discontigmem, but despite having a patch adding the supporting common
infrastructure for the last year and a half or so, no one in the ARM
community is interested in it.

Since I've no machines which use the present discontig support and
have more than a single bank of memory, I've no way to test and
progress sparsemem on ARM - and since no one's interested I'm probably
going to drop the ARM sparsemem git branch soon.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/