linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_64: change dm

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jun 2007 12:06:51 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: change dm_ioremap to ioremap

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 08:21:23 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> [PATCH] x86_64: change dmi_ioremap to ioremap
> 
> dmi_scan_machine==>dmi_present==>dmi_table==>dmi_ioremap uses
> early_ioremap in mm/init.c
> dmi_scan_machine is called after init_memory_mappings, and could use
> ioremap instead.
> also remove extra extern declaring about dmi_ioremap

init_memory_mapping is not enough; it also needs a working 
page allocator. But at this point there is only bootmem.
I don't think the patch is correct.

-Andi
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