From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock: add memblock_start_of_DRAM()
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:44:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110824044412.GA17879@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110823140309.9a7b36dd.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:03:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 20:59:23 +0200
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> > SPARC32 require access to the start address.
> > Add a new helper memblock_start_of_DRAM() to give
> > access to the address of the first memblock - which
> > contains the lowest address.
> >
>
> What is the status of the sparc32 patches which need this change?
Not at all ready yet :-(
> If they're in some other tree then I'd suggest that this patch (which
> needed some small changes for current mainline) join them in that tree.
>
> Or we could slip this change into mainline immediately if that makes
> life easier.
>
> Or we could just wait for 3.1.
I expect this to either go in via Tejuns memblock patches
or via the sparc32 patches.
I made the patch public this early only in case other needed the same.
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-06 18:59 Sam Ravnborg
2011-08-08 9:34 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-23 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-24 4:44 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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