Re: Discontiguous memory fun

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 21:38:45 EST




--Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote (on Monday, October 03, 2005 03:10:28 +0100):

> On 10/3/05, Marc Singer <elf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:57:30PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
>> > Replying to my own post...
>> >
>> > On 9/1/05, Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'd love to know what the state of discontig memory is like on 2.6
>> > series ARM kernels and highmem too for that matter, but I've not had
>> > chance to look at it (I'm usually a ppc guy).
>>
>> It works fine.
>>
>> The node mapping is performed by macros in asm-arm/arch-*/memory.h.
>
> Hmmm...as it was in 2.4. I'll take a look for my general interest.

If you're going to mess with it, please use sparsemem, not discontigmem.
The intent is to deprecate and delete the latter.

M.

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