Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: add support for memmap kernel parameters

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:38:54PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:33:14PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> > memmap should be an useful kernel parameter which has been supported by
> > x86, mips and xtensa.
> 
> Why is this parameter should be useful for ARM64? 
> My understanding is that it is required only to work around really
> broken bootloaders, isn't it?

Agreed, I can't see this being something we really want to support. If it
turns out that it is generally useful, then the implementation should
probably be somewhere outside of arch/ where I don't have to look at it :)

Will