On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 14:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > And I don't see the point of moving the x86 e820 stuff into the kernel > > directory. [...] > > I dont see the point of that either - that is a mistake. e820 is an x86 bios > call and we shouldnt name a generic mechanism after that. e820 is absolutely > messy and has no place anywhere beyond x86. > > The main technical argument i see is 'early_res versus LMB'. Even there i'd > prefer LMB from a technical quality POV. Then we have no argument. The point is, we object to that fw_memmap/e820 stuff taking over for non-x86 architectures. We aren't saying that x86 -must- move to LMB, but if the wish is to have a common implementation in generic code accross all archs, -then- we object to it being e820. Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
