Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:48:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, "\"Yinghai Lu" <yingai@kernrel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before
 slab
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> From: "Yinghai Lu <yingai@kernrel.org>"
>
> please check the patches regarding with early_res and bootmem
>
> and at last it will make use early_res instead of bootmem with x86 64bits
>
> the first two are needed for some amd_bus.c/intel_bus.c cleaning up patches too.
> so put other x86/pci related into this series
> hope that is ok to Jesse.
>
> -v2: allocate vmemmap on one node together, and also seperate early_res

The point of this patchset is what?

Avoid use of bootmem altogether by x86 bootstrap? If so why?


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