On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Running everything from late_time_init() instead allows the use of kmalloc. > X86 has the same issue with requiring kmalloc in time_init which is why > they had moved everything to late_time_init. It's more ioremap, but yeah. > So the real question is, why can't we just move the call of time_init() > in setup_kernel() to where late_time_init() is getting called from for > all architectures, does anything rely on it getting called early? That's a good question and I asked it myself already. I can't see a real reason why something would need it early. Definitely worth to try. Thanks, tglx -- 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
