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

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 10:26:56 EST 2014


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

Nice. One thing I would like to see done in this area is ARM using the
default early_init_dt_add_memory_arch function. It currently doesn't
because of the dependency on meminfo.

Rob



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