Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmembefore slab

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Feb 09 2010 - 15:31:51 EST


On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:26 -0800
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +config NO_BOOTMEM
> + default y
> + bool "Disable Bootmem code"
> + depends on X86_64
> + ---help---
> + use early_res directly instead of bootmem before slab is ready.
> +

s/use/Use/

It would help if the help was a bit more helpful than this. It
provides no indication why one would want to enable this option, nor
what the effects of doing so might be.

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