On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 19:14, Michael Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > remind me - what rewrite will be required?
Remove your own memory allocator. Probably the simplest is to always reserve some ST-RAM on bootup, and let stram_alloc()/stram_free() use that reserved pool. > I've seen your work on the chip RAM driver, will take a close look at > adapting this for ST-RAM when I return from overseas. When will you return, just in case I come to it before that (woow, I feel overly optimistic now)? > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 15:28, Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>main archive in a few days, then. Just saw there was a new upload. >>> >>> Hm, well. It doesn’t include the “Reserve ST-RAM early” patch ☹ >>> but we know how to work around the problem, for now, I think. >>> Let’s just hope it’ll end up in 2.6.40 upstream. >> >> I'm sorry, it won't make 2.6.40, unless someone does the rewrite before >> Sunday >> (Linus flying to Japan, end-of-merge-window). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
