Re: [PATCH 00/21] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM

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Hello Serge,

On 22/05/17 15:03, Serge Semin wrote:
>> I have an SGI Onyx2 and just recently acquired a working SGI Origin 200.  The
>> Onyx2 has NUMA issues yet to be hunted down, but I got ~3 days uptime out of
>> the Origin 200 running compiles before powering it down.  Mainline needs 2-3
>> small patches to make IP27 workable, last I tested.
>>
>> I'd have to look at the IP27 code again and see if I can make sense of what
>> it's doing.  I think it dealt with either setting up memory for an initrd
>> (which I haven't used in over a decade), or it's for the NUMA stuff to discover
>> all memory on each node.
>>
>> -- 
>> Joshua Kinard
>> Gentoo/MIPS
>> kumba@xxxxxxxxxx
>> 6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27
>> 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943
>>
>> "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us.  And our
>> lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."
>>
>> --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
> It's great to hear of your willingness to help. Since both Loonson64 and SGI IP27
> problematic architecture-specific code will be appropriately altered, I'll publish
> the fixed general MIPS-memblock patchset within two months. I'll also try to
> involve Ralf in it when I'm ready, so to make sure all my alterations are made
> within kernel arch-code coding style. While I'm working on it, you can still use
> the current patchset for some limited tests.

Please Cc me in this case, I should be able to test on Octeon MIPS64 platform.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
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