linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator

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Message-Id: <20180906133023.GL27492@rapoport-lnx>
Date:   Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:30:23 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Greentime Hu <green.hu@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, mpe@...erman.id.au, mhocko@...e.com,
        paul.burton@...s.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        tony.luck@...el.com, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        sparclinux <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:33:48AM +0800, Greentime Hu wrote:
> Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> 於 2018年9月6日 週四 上午12:04寫道：
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > These patches switch early memory managment to use memblock directly
> > without any bootmem compatibility wrappers. As the result both bootmem and
> > nobootmem are removed.
> >
> > There are still a couple of things to sort out, the most important is the
> > removal of bootmem usage in MIPS.
> >
> > Still, IMHO, the series is in sufficient state to post and get the early
> > feedback.
> >
> > The patches are build-tested with defconfig for most architectures (I
> > couldn't find a compiler for nds32 and unicore32) and boot-tested on x86
> > VM.
> >
> Hi Mike,
> 
> There are nds32 toolchains.
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/8.1.0/x86_64-gcc-8.1.0-nolibc-nds32le-linux.tar.gz
> https://github.com/vincentzwc/prebuilt-nds32-toolchain/releases/download/20180521/nds32le-linux-glibc-v3-upstream.tar.gz

Thanks!
 
> Sorry, we have no qemu yet.
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.