From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5266B0047 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 04:17:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:16:21 +0000 From: Russell King Subject: Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default Message-ID: <20100307091621.GA5761@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <49b004811003041321g2567bac8yb73235be32a27e7c@mail.gmail.com> <20100305032106.GA12065@cmpxchg.org> <49b004811003042117n720f356h7e10997a1a783475@mail.gmail.com> <4B915074.4020704@kernel.org> <4B916BD6.8010701@kernel.org> <4B91EBC6.6080509@kernel.org> <20100306162234.e2cc84fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100307010327.GD15725@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100307010327.GD15725@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Andrew Morton , Yinghai Lu , Greg Thelen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org