Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2018 07:58:19 -0600 | Subject | Re: why do we still need bootmem allocator? |
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:11 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:09:41AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:08 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > I am wondering why do we still keep mm/bootmem.c when most architectures > > > already moved to nobootmem. Is there any fundamental reason why others > > > cannot or this is just a matter of work? > > > > Just because no one has done the work. I did a couple of arches > > recently (sh, microblaze, and h8300) mainly because I broke them with > > some DT changes. > > I have a patch for alpha nearly ready. > That leaves m68k and ia64
And c6x, hexagon, mips, nios2, unicore32. Those are all the platforms which don't select NO_BOOTMEM.
Rob
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