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

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Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:43:57 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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 Tue, 2010-03-23 at 22:54 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> if the array can be doubled and have old one copied to new one. 
> then we don't change lmb.c too much.
> 
> new early_res.c exend lmb. and another half already works with x86 to
> replace bootmem.
> 
> will check if i can produce one patch to make powerpc to reuse
> early_res/nobootmem

While at it, can you rename early_res to something that doesn't
suck ? :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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