On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 19:22, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)?
Has anyone besides me tried http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/5/46 on top of https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/21/142? >> 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
