Early malloc function (MPC826x) ??

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Dimitris,

in message <20030520071839.36639.qmail at web9708.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> Is there a function that I can call (for memory
> allocation (just like kmalloc)) but in the early init
> stage inside "m8260_cpm_dpalloc" or "m8260_cpm_reset"?
>  I want to implement "m8260_cpm_dpalloc" with linked
> lists, so that I can implement "m8260_cpm_dpfree" as
> well. But of course, with kmalloc( ,GFP_KERNEL), the
> system will not boot :))

Why do you want to re-invent the wheel?

This has been done before. Several times already.

See for example the DPRAM list allocator for the 8xx in our linux-2.4
kernel tree,  or  the  patches  submitted  by  Pantelis  Antoniou  in
December last year.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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