linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw

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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:04:36 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, hpa@...or.com, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c
 to fw_memmap.cy

On 03/22/2010 05:45 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> B1;2005;0cYinghai,
>>
>> to make x86 to use lmb, we need to extend lmb to have find_early_area.
> 
> Why ?

unless you want to dump two users of find_e820_area_size()

YH
  
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