[PATCH 01/10] ARM: realview: remove sparsemem hack

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Feb 27 04:20:12 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> The realview-pbx platform has an elaborate way of avoiding the use of highmem
> by redefining its phys_to_virt function. In practice this doesn't help all
> that much, and it gets in the way of doing multiplatform builds for
> realview.
>
> This removes the feature and kills off the mach/memory.h file for realview.
> We also lose the ability to do sparsemem with this patch, but that should
> be put back into place for generic multiplatform configurations, to save
> a little memory on PBX.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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