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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to
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From: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
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Hi Serge,

On 22.05.2017 12:26, Serge Semin wrote:

> Regarding the patchset. I'm still pretty much eager to make it being
> part of kernel MIPS arch. But there was a problem I outlined
> in the patchset header message, which I can't fix by myself.
> Particulary It's connected with Loonson3 or SGI IP27 code alteration,
> so to make it free of ancient boot_mem_map dependencies (see the
> patchset header message). Without a help from someone, who has
> Loonson64 and SGI IP27 hardware and strong desire to make it free of
> old bootmem allocator, it is useless to make any progress from my
> side. That's why Ralf moved this email-thread into RFC actually.
> Anyway If either you or someone else has got such hardware and is
> interested in the cooperation, I'll be more than happy to push
> my efforts forward with this patchset contribution. But only after
> I got a bit less busy with my work. As I said it will happen within
> next 1-2 months. So do you have the hardware and desire to be part
> of this?

I should be able to update/test the changes on a Loongson64 platform.


Marcin