Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:58:54 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:55:21 -0800 (PST)
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > Sparc32 is still broken, as just one of several possible examples. > > I have not looked at sparc32 sorry. If you simply set up a couple of > configuration values in arch/sparc32/Kconfig then everything will be fine.
There is assembler code to write, which as I stated several times nobody is going to work on or test.
It is unreasonable to add this new VMEMMAP requirement in order for your patches to work properly.
> > The BSS usage is still there for platforms that don't use VMEMMAP. > > All MMU platforms can use the virtual mappings. The main use of the static > configuration is for embedded systems.
Someone has to implement and test VMEMMAP now on all of these architectures, it is becomming a requirement unlike in the sparsemem patches case where it was optional.
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