[RFC] Initial attempt to make ARM use LMB

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu May 13 18:01:39 EDT 2010


* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [100513 14:53]:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 02:19:51PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [100513 10:35]:
> > > And here's a patch which converts the OMAP FB code to use lmb_reserve
> > > instead of poking about with bootmem stuff.  Untested, so I'd like to
> > > hear back whether it works.
> > 
> > Did a quick test with the following patches picked from your lmb
> > branch on top of omap for-next branch:
> > 
> > ARM: Remove useless linux/bootmem.h includes
> > ARM: Ensure meminfo is sorted prior to sanity_check_meminfo
> > ARM: initial LMB trial
> > ARM: Move platform LMB memory reservations out of generic code
> > 
> > and then this patch.
> > 
> > It does not boot.. It seems to be related to the patch
> > "ARM: initial LMB trial". If I only apply the first two patches
> > above the system boots.
> 
> Hmm, I'm sure it worked for me when I tested it out.  Could you try
> booting with lmb=debug please?

No other output with that it seems.

Tony



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