On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > *Until* such a mechanism is in, I see no reason to not keep feature parity > for all platforms. This is the exact "You should boil the ocean" response > that Arjan famously complained about at Kernel Summit a few years ago.
Feature parity for all platforms is the NFIT which Hyper-V is already implementing. Setting that aside, if we want to fix memmap= for the general case, implementing a table like mBFT does not amount to ocean boiling in my opinion.
