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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next prev 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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