Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func frome820.c to fw_memmap.cy

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 13:07 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 1. need to keep e820
> 2. use e820 range with RAM to fill lmb.memory when finizing_e820
> 3. use lmb.reserved to replace early_res.
> 
> current lmb is merging the region, we can not use name tag any more.

Feel free to extend LMB as long as it's reasonable. For example, I
wouldn't object to have flags or similar things to LMB regions, one of
them being used to prevent merge for example.

> may need to dump early_memtest, and use early_res for bootmem at
> first. 

Cheers,
Ben.


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