On Dec 18, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:17:41PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 08:46 -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote: >>> This is needed for the ppc32 /dev/oldmem driver of crash dump. >> >> Kumar's working (well, last I heard he was) on a fixmap mechanism >> so we can do that sort of thing without CONFIG_HIGHMEM, you may >> want to sync with him here, that would allow to shrink the crash >> kernel by not having highmem selected. >> >> Cheers, >> Ben. > > Kumar, are you close to posting something that would make the > patch below unnecessary (or change it significantly)? If so, > I'll hold off.
My plan is to get the fixmap stuff posted this week. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
