From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial attempt to make ARM use LMB Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:27:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20100408182715.GF31407@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20100325233248.GM24984@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100408153111.GA2598@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:57009 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758895Ab0DHS2T (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:28:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100408153111.GA2598@debian> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Rabin Vincent Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Tony Lindgren , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:02:56PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:32:48PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > The patch below is the combined patch; individual patches can be found > > in the arm:lmb patches on the website or the lmb branch of my git tree; > > this should be considered unstable. > > Something like the following is needed to make initrds work after this > patch: This to me looks like a very large patch for what is a small problem - that is the assignment of initrd_start/initrd_size got lost along the way. I'd much rather have the smaller patch; keep the initrd parameters in the physical address space for as long as possible, and only convert them to the virtual address space once we've finished mm initialisation.