From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 16:03:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509200301.GA15891@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2C184B1B-9F70-4175-B90B-A1CC5741A6DE@kernel.crashing.org>
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:33:48PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On May 5, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >o Core changes for Kconfigurable memory and IO resources. By
> >default resources
> > are 64bit until chosen to be 32bit.
> >
> >o Last time I posted the patches for 64bit memory resources but it
> >raised
> > the concerns regarding code bloat on 32bit systems who use 32 bit
> > resources.
> >
> >o This patch-set allows resources to be kconfigurable.
> >
> >o I have done cross compilation on i386, x86_64, ppc, powerpc,
> >sparc, sparc64
> > ia64 and alpha.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
> >---
>
> [snip]
>
> I didn't think the bloat was a big issue based on the numbers you
> reported. I'd still prefer to see us just move to a 64-bit resource
> on all systems.
I had also thought that bloat was not a big issue but Andrew thinks
otherwise. Here is the link to the thread.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114626907106986&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114635425606186&w=2
In the latest patches, 64bit resources are default but one can force
these to be 32bit.
Thanks
Vivek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 17:28 [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:30 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/6] kconfigurable resources driver pci changes Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:31 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/6] kconfigurable resources driver others changes Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/6] kconfigurable resources arch dependent changes (arch/[a-i]*) Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/6] kconfigurable resources arch dependent changes (arch/[j-p]*) Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 17:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/6] kconfigurable resources arch dependent changes (arch/[q-z]*) Vivek Goyal
2006-05-05 18:10 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes Greg KH
2006-05-05 18:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-05-09 19:33 ` Kumar Gala
2006-05-09 20:03 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2006-05-18 5:19 ` Matthew Frost
2006-05-18 5:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-18 6:14 ` Matthew Frost
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