Hi. On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:09, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It doesn't look like they'll be able to easily free up a page > > flag for 2 reasons. First, PageReserved will probably be kept > > around for at least one release. Second, swsusp and some arch > > code (ioremap) wants to know about struct pages that don't point > > to valid RAM - currently they use PageReserved, but we'll probably > > just introduce a PageValidRAM or something when PageReserved goes.
Changing the e820 code so it sets PageNosave instead of PageReserved, along with a couple of modifications in swsusp itself should get rid of the swsusp dependency. Regards, Nigel -- Evolution. Enumerate the requirements. Consider the interdependencies. Calculate the probabilities. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
