From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936170AbXGRSro (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:47:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759724AbXGRSrg (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:47:36 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:44696 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759495AbXGRSrf (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:47:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:47:34 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jonathan Campbell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels Message-ID: <20070718184734.GE3898@one.firstfloor.org> References: <469A8AED.7070207@nerdgrounds.com> <469E3806.4030804@zytor.com> <20070718182021.GA3898@one.firstfloor.org> <20070718183840.GC3898@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > And the hypothetical case where RAM is hotplugged and/or recognized after the > kernel has been loaded by the bootloader? I do not claim to be an expert, but RAM hotadd needs working user space to trigger it. Besides it typically comes with cpuhotplug too, so you couldn't even discard __cpuinit. -Andi (who is out of the thread because it's getting silly)