Re: [microblaze-uclinux] [patch] boot memory allocator cleanup

[Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:38:25 +1000,
John Williams wrote:
[...]
> >> > - add config option for m68knommu style romfs
> >>
> >>not quite sure what you mean - the microblaze already does it mostly in
> >>the m68knommu way.. with a bit of a hangover from v850 as well :-S
> > 
> > Yes, it does it in the m68knommu way, but there is no option to
> > disable it.  that is, if you don't have romfs image not concatenated
> > to kernel image, you are doomed. currently armnommu does have the
> > config option.
> 
> OK gotcha.  Will this be a suzaku platform option, or microblaze arch 
> option?  If it's microblaze-wide, can you do it so the current romfs 
> behaviour is the default?

I can do it either way. For suzaku, I'll have the current romfs
behaviour the default.  so, I'm assuming that we all want it as
default.

> >> > and possibly
> >> > - discon mem support
> >>
> >>What's this mean?  Multiple zones for discontiguous memory regions?
> > 
> > yes.  we are currently assuming that memory region doesn't have any
> > gap.  i don't think we need this capability right now, because we can
> > configure the hardware.  but i'd like to play with it ;)
> 
> Sounds good - again, my only request is for it to keep current platforms 
> working by defalut.

sure.
--
        yashi
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