Re: [PATCH 00/21] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM

[Serge Semin]

Hello Alexandr,
Ok, I will.

Regards,
-Sergey

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 03:20:44PM +0200, Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Serge,
> 
> On 22/05/17 15:03, Serge Semin wrote:
> >> I have an SGI Onyx2 and just recently acquired a working SGI Origin 200.  The
> >> Onyx2 has NUMA issues yet to be hunted down, but I got ~3 days uptime out of
> >> the Origin 200 running compiles before powering it down.  Mainline needs 2-3
> >> small patches to make IP27 workable, last I tested.
> >>
> >> I'd have to look at the IP27 code again and see if I can make sense of what
> >> it's doing.  I think it dealt with either setting up memory for an initrd
> >> (which I haven't used in over a decade), or it's for the NUMA stuff to discover
> >> all memory on each node.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Joshua Kinard
> >> Gentoo/MIPS
> >> kumba@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> 6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27
> >> 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943
> >>
> >> "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us.  And our
> >> lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."
> >>
> >> --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
> > It's great to hear of your willingness to help. Since both Loonson64 and SGI IP27
> > problematic architecture-specific code will be appropriately altered, I'll publish
> > the fixed general MIPS-memblock patchset within two months. I'll also try to
> > involve Ralf in it when I'm ready, so to make sure all my alterations are made
> > within kernel arch-code coding style. While I'm working on it, you can still use
> > the current patchset for some limited tests.
> 
> Please Cc me in this case, I should be able to test on Octeon MIPS64 platform.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Alexander Sverdlin.