Re: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem beforeslab

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> From: "Yinghai Lu <yingai@xxxxxxxxxxx>"
>
> please check the patches regarding with early_res and bootmem
>
> and at last it will make use early_res instead of bootmem with x86 64bits
>
> the first two are needed for some amd_bus.c/intel_bus.c cleaning up patches too.
> so put other x86/pci related into this series
> hope that is ok to Jesse.
>
> -v2: allocate vmemmap on one node together, and also seperate early_res

The point of this patchset is what?

Avoid use of bootmem altogether by x86 bootstrap? If so why?


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