From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965907AbXCPUxU (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:53:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965912AbXCPUxU (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:53:20 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44864 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965907AbXCPUxT (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:53:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070316.135316.115910811.davem@davemloft.net> To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: mbligh@mbligh.org, andi@firstfloor.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, glommer@gmail.com, apw@shadowen.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <45FAFD57.90601@mbligh.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Lameter Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:48:58 -0700 (PDT) > Please read my posts to linux-mm on that subject. We discussed it last > year in detail and the agreement was that the sparsemem crud needs to be > taken out. Kame-san posted patches to do that. Please don't do that, sparsemem works very well on sparc64 and I like the flexibility it gives me. Or are you just proposing to stop using it on x86_64?