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

[Yinghai Lu]

On 03/10/2010 01:33 PM, David Miller wrote:
> 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?

try to remove bootmem layer.

> 
> 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.

sure.

Yinghai
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