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

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Mar 10 2010 - 18:48:15 EST

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On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 14:36 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> LMB could do this too with minor modifications.
>
> Simply make the lmb.memory and lmb.reserved be pointers, and initially
> they point into the static array(s).
>
> Later the pointers can be repositioned to point to dynamically
> allocated memory.
>
> So please, for the third time, please show me how LMB with some minor
> modifications is not able to satisfy your needs.

So I was about to say the exact same stuff here...

Cheers,
Ben.

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