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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock: add memblock_start_of_DRAM()
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:03:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110823140309.9a7b36dd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110806185923.GA8494@merkur.ravnborg.org>

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 20:59:23 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> SPARC32 require access to the start address.
> Add a new helper memblock_start_of_DRAM() to give
> access to the address of the first memblock - which
> contains the lowest address.
> 

What is the status of the sparc32 patches which need this change?

If they're in some other tree then I'd suggest that this patch (which
needed some small changes for current mainline) join them in that tree.

Or we could slip this change into mainline immediately if that makes
life easier.

Or we could just wait for 3.1.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-06 18:59 [PATCH] memblock: add memblock_start_of_DRAM() Sam Ravnborg
2011-08-08  9:34 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-23 21:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-08-24  4:44   ` Sam Ravnborg

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