[RESEND][RFC PATCH 0/2] Early patches to get rid of meminfo

Leif Lindholm leif.lindholm at linaro.org
Tue Jan 21 06:26:27 EST 2014


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:10:55AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> With the move away from bootmem and the convergence on memblock, it seems
> like meminfo should be deprecated as well to avoid duplication. This is
> a first pass attempt to just use memblock and not have meminfo integrated.
> There is still a major issue in terms of actually specifying mem at location
> on the command line but I wanted to send this out for some early feedback
> before putting any more effort into this. I've done basic boot testing on
> a simple DT target.

Well, this set makes takes away most of the complexity of using the
UEFI memory map instead of DT for populating memblock.
I'm all for it.

/
    Leif



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