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Message-ID: <20110824044412.GA17879@merkur.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:44:13 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock: add memblock_start_of_DRAM()

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:03:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 20:59:23 +0200
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> 
> > SPARC32 require access to the start address.
> > Add a new helper memblock_start_of_DRAM() to give
> > access to the address of the first memblock - which
> > contains the lowest address.
> > 
> 
> What is the status of the sparc32 patches which need this change?
Not at all ready yet :-(

> If they're in some other tree then I'd suggest that this patch (which
> needed some small changes for current mainline) join them in that tree.
> 
> Or we could slip this change into mainline immediately if that makes
> life easier.
> 
> Or we could just wait for 3.1.
I expect this to either go in via Tejuns memblock patches
or via the sparc32 patches.
I made the patch public this early only in case other needed the same.

	Sam
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