On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:32:48PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > LMB... logical memory blocks. > > LM is a different method of managing memory regions during the early > boot period when the usual kernel memory allocators are not up and > running. LMB has been in the kernel for quite some time, and is > already being used by Microblaze, PPC, SH and Sparc. Maybe soon x86 > as well. > > The motivation for this is that there appears to be plans to kill off > the other method - bootmem. (see discussions on the linux-arch ml.) I've now queued the first three patches in this series for the next merge window, which is basically the preparation for moving to LMB. Essentially, that's: - removing useless includes of linux/bootmem.h - sorting the meminfo array prior to sanity_check_meminfo() - moving the mapping of lowmem into mmu.c and making create_mapping() static None of these changes should affect any currently merged platforms, and wouldn't be affected by Ben's LMB updates either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
