On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > o Kernel requirements
> > (https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/TSC/MinutesToBeAgreed)
> >
>
> I still have two questions about stuff that came up here:
>
> * SD/MMC performance: Is this about device access, file systems or both?
> I think the file system level stuff is actually the more important
> part but I fear that what was discussed is the other one.
The discussion didn't get into that level of detail. :-(
> * highmem: Not sure what this was about. I guess we don't really want
> to enable this by default, but some people will want it anyway.
> Is this about run-time patching the code out of the kernel?
I believe that this is related to LPAE -- the usual 32-bit-only DMA
devices in a >32-bit physical address space. But there was also
discussion about run-time patching for SMP alternatives, though I am
missing how this relates to highmem. Enlightenment?
Thanx, Paul
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