Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

David Miller
2007-11-14T01:33:55Z

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:00:45 -0800 (PST)

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> > Once you add in mm/vmalloc.c all needed helpers, no need to use BSS Megablob
> > anymore ?
>
> Well I think all of this can be avoided by simply copying the existing
> vmemmap helper functions and providing a virtual address for sparc64.

I intend to do that in the end, but you miss my point.
Requiring this is unreasonable.

And nobody is going to do the virt stuff for platforms like sparc32.
And I do mean nobody.