[PATCH 3/3] ARM: Allow either FLATMEM or SPARSEMEM on the multi-v7 build

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Oct 31 13:48:54 PDT 2014


On Friday 31 October 2014 13:12:46 Gregory Fong wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Kevin Cernekee <cernekee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ARMv7 chips with LPAE can often benefit from SPARSEMEM, as portions of
> > system memory can be located deep in the 36-bit address space.  Allow
> > FLATMEM or SPARSEMEM to be selectable at compile time; FLATMEM remains
> > the default.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee at gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0 at gmail.com>
> 

Looking at the patch now, I see no reason why this should be tied to
ARMv7. Are there any problems we'd expect enabling it for all of
ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM?

	Arnd



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