Re: why do we still need bootmem allocator?

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:11 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:09:41AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:08 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am wondering why do we still keep mm/bootmem.c when most architectures
> > > already moved to nobootmem. Is there any fundamental reason why others
> > > cannot or this is just a matter of work?
> >
> > Just because no one has done the work. I did a couple of arches
> > recently (sh, microblaze, and h8300) mainly because I broke them with
> > some DT changes.
>
> I have a patch for alpha nearly ready.
> That leaves m68k and ia64

And c6x, hexagon, mips, nios2, unicore32. Those are all the platforms
which don't select NO_BOOTMEM.

Rob