linux-kernel - Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default

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Date:	Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:16:21 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:03:27PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:22:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Earlier, Johannes wrote
> > 
> > : Humm, now that is a bit disappointing.  Because it means we will never
> > : get rid of bootmem as long as it works for the other architectures. 
> > : And your changeset just added ~900 lines of code, some of it being a
> > : rather ugly compatibility layer in bootmem that I hoped could go away
> > : again sooner than later.
> 
> Whoa!  Who's proposing to get rid of bootmem, and why?

It would be nice if this stuff was copied to linux-arch since it
impacts all architectures.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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