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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:16:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100307091621.GA5761@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100307010327.GD15725@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:03:27PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:22:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Earlier, Johannes wrote
> > 
> > : Humm, now that is a bit disappointing.  Because it means we will never
> > : get rid of bootmem as long as it works for the other architectures. 
> > : And your changeset just added ~900 lines of code, some of it being a
> > : rather ugly compatibility layer in bootmem that I hoped could go away
> > : again sooner than later.
> 
> Whoa!  Who's proposing to get rid of bootmem, and why?

It would be nice if this stuff was copied to linux-arch since it
impacts all architectures.

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Russell King
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-07  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-04 21:21 mmotm boot panic bootmem-avoid-dma32-zone-by-default.patch Greg Thelen
2010-03-05  3:21 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-03-05  5:00   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-05  5:14     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-05 12:51       ` Johannes Weiner
2010-03-05 16:38         ` Yinghai
2010-03-05  5:17   ` Greg Thelen
2010-03-05  5:34     ` Greg Thelen
2010-03-05 18:41     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-05 19:09       ` Greg Thelen
2010-03-05 20:38       ` [PATCH] x86/bootmem: introduce bootmem_default_goal Yinghai Lu
2010-03-06  5:44         ` please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default Yinghai Lu
2010-03-07  0:22           ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-07  0:42             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-07  0:53               ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-07  1:03             ` Paul Mackerras
2010-03-07  1:48               ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-07  9:16               ` Russell King [this message]
2010-03-05 23:58       ` mmotm boot panic bootmem-avoid-dma32-zone-by-default.patch Johannes Weiner
2010-03-06  1:50         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-06  2:24           ` Johannes Weiner
2010-03-06  2:31             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-05  9:04   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-05 10:26     ` Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 20:27       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-05 13:08     ` Johannes Weiner

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