Re: Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

2024-10-31 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 05:45:23PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:16:22PM +0100, metux wrote: > > On 22.10.24 10:38, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > I'm still interested in merging a carve-out driver[1], since it seems to > > > be > > > in every vendor BSP and got asked again

Re: Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

2024-10-31 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:16:22PM +0100, metux wrote: > On 22.10.24 10:38, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > I'm still interested in merging a carve-out driver[1], since it seems to be > > in every vendor BSP and got asked again last week. > > > > I remember from our discussion that for new heap types to

Re: Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

2024-10-31 Thread metux
On 22.10.24 10:38, Maxime Ripard wrote: Hi, I'm still interested in merging a carve-out driver[1], since it seems to be in every vendor BSP and got asked again last week. I remember from our discussion that for new heap types to be merged, we needed a kernel use-case. Looking back, I'm not ent

Re: Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

2024-10-25 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 09:19:05AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 1:38 AM Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > > I wanted to follow-up on the discussion we had at Plumbers with John and > > T.J. about (among other things) adding new heaps to the kernel. > > > > I'm still interested in m

Re: Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

2024-10-24 Thread Maxime Ripard
On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 01:58:47PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote: > Hi, > > Le mardi 22 octobre 2024 à 09:19 -0700, John Stultz a écrit : > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 1:38 AM Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > > > > I wanted to follow-up on the discussion we had at Plumbers with John and > > > T.J. about

Re: Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

2024-10-22 Thread Nicolas Dufresne
Hi, Le mardi 22 octobre 2024 à 09:19 -0700, John Stultz a écrit : > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 1:38 AM Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > > I wanted to follow-up on the discussion we had at Plumbers with John and > > T.J. about (among other things) adding new heaps to the kernel. > > > > I'm still interes

Re: Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

2024-10-22 Thread John Stultz
On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 1:38 AM Maxime Ripard wrote: > > I wanted to follow-up on the discussion we had at Plumbers with John and > T.J. about (among other things) adding new heaps to the kernel. > > I'm still interested in merging a carve-out driver[1], since it seems to be > in every vendor BSP