On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:10:49AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Russell King wrote: > > > It would also be nice to convert ARM to using sparsemem rather than > > discontigmem, but despite having a patch adding the supporting common > > infrastructure for the last year and a half or so, no one in the ARM > > community is interested in it. > > Yeah I was also not interested for the longest time because when I > became concerned when I looked at the code generated by sparsemem for > virt_to_page and page_address. But that is different now. > > > Since I've no machines which use the present discontig support and > > have more than a single bank of memory, I've no way to test and > > progress sparsemem on ARM - and since no one's interested I'm probably > > going to drop the ARM sparsemem git branch soon. > > Could you keep it around for a while longer? sparse_virtual now allows > code reduction in page_address and virt_to_page even vs. discontig.
The patch is at: http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/arm:sparsemem.diff it's not much. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
