Hi Ben, Yinghai, Ingo. While doing some sparc related tasks I noticed that sparc64 uses memblock - whereas sparc32 does not. I am aware that memblock was called lmb in the older days and that sparc64 had lmb support which was converted to memblock support. But so far I have failed to find any information on what the benefit of memblock is and how it compared to for example bootmem. I can see that x86 no longer uses bootmem - as the only arch. But I also noticed that mm/nobootmem.c contains several functions named bla_x86_bla(). So I continued to be a bit confused. Do there exist any writeup of what memblock is? Also does it make sense to consider introducing memblock for sparc32. And if yes - what is the benefit and what does it replace? And would it make sense to drop bootmem on sparc64? I know - lots of questions! Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
