linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early

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Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:30:37 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem
 before slab

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:26 -0800
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

> +config NO_BOOTMEM
> +	default y
> +	bool "Disable Bootmem code"
> +	depends on X86_64
> +	---help---
> +	  use early_res directly instead of bootmem before slab is ready.
> +

s/use/Use/

It would help if the help was a bit more helpful than this.  It
provides no indication why one would want to enable this option, nor
what the effects of doing so might be.

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