Hi Hector,
On 08/03/2011 05:08 PM, Hector Martin wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 12:32 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> We need an explanation of this change.
Sorry for such a terse request. What I meant was that
this is a significant change to how high mem is managed,
so the patch needs a comment explaining t
On 08/04/2011 09:05 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> The reason for that is to make sure the allocations will succeed.
> Chances are very
> slim you can allocate a contiguous 9 MiB buffer at any arbitrary time.
Fair enough, but then they don't need to happen as early as they do now;
any time during
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 02:08, Hector Martin wrote:
> tight. Can we get rid of the ps3flash and ps3fb preallocations to save
> bootmem and just allocate them during device init like the other drivers
> do? What is the reason for preallocating these?
The reason for that is to make sure the allocati
On 08/04/2011 12:32 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> We need an explanation of this change.
I actually have a hard time understanding the reason for the existing
behavior of hot-adding memory halfway through the boot process. Maybe
you can shed some light on this?
The reason for the change is that under
On 08/01/2011 01:02 PM, Andre Heider wrote:
> From: Hector Martin
We need an explanation of this change.
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin
> [a.heider: Various cleanups to make checkpatch.pl happy]
> Signed-off-by: Andre Heider
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c | 62
> +++---
From: Hector Martin
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin
[a.heider: Various cleanups to make checkpatch.pl happy]
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c | 62 +++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerp
