Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem

[David Miller]

From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:30:35 -0800 (PST)

> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:24:27 -0800
> 
>> use early_res/fw_memmap to replace lmb, so could use early_res replace bootme
>> later.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Why?  What does early_res/fw_memmap do that lmb cannot?

Also, if you're going to use this on non-x86 systems you're
going to have to get rid of "e820" from the interface names.
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