linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:53:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	clameter@....com
Cc:	mbligh@...igh.org, andi@...stfloor.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	chrisw@...s-sol.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, glommer@...il.com,
	apw@...dowen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 -
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:48:58 -0700 (PDT)

> Please read my posts to linux-mm on that subject. We discussed it last 
> year in detail and the agreement was that the sparsemem crud needs to be 
> taken out. Kame-san posted patches to do that.

Please don't do that, sparsemem works very well on sparc64 and I
like the flexibility it gives me.

Or are you just proposing to stop using it on x86_64?
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