[RFC] powerpc/mm: Support bootmem for PPC64 again
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Sat Mar 26 20:23:54 AEDT 2016
On Fri, 2016-25-03 at 16:03:41 UTC, Gavin Shan wrote:
> CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM is enabled on PPC platforms by default. However,
> user might disable that to have bootmem for other purpose. So it's
> resonable to support it.
Hi Gavin,
Sorry but I don't understand. We deliberately removed bootmem support, and don't
want it back, it doesn't add anything other than complexity. See 10239733ee86
("powerpc: Remove bootmem allocator").
I wasn't aware there was any way to enable it? If there is we should fix that.
cheers
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