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 20:32:57 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	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 Wed, 2010-03-24 at 10:00 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I'm a bit too flat out right now to write code, but if there's no objection, 
> > I might give that a go either later this week or next week, see if I can 
> > replace bootmem on powerpc.
> 
> That would be fantastic! PowerPC and x86 both doing it would give it enough of 
> a critical mass to make the removal of bootmem realistic.

>>From the look of it, I wont' have any bandwidth this week tho ... but
let's keep that as a plan for moving forward and who gets to do it first
wins a free beer at the next conference :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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