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

[Paul Mundt]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 03:47 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 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...
> > 
> let see:
> 1. if early_res + fw_memmap could be simplified...
> 2. or let x86 to use lmb instead of early_res,then add more to lmb.
> 
I vote for LMB too, it's already used across multiple architectures and
has proven to be quite versatile. If x86 is concerned about
consolidation, then it's a good a place to start as any, particularly
since it's not even that conceptually different from how the e820 maps
are used.

This may come as a surprise, but if this had actually been brought up on
linux-arch instead of buried in -tip and magically showing up in -next
everyone involved could have saved a lot of time.
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