On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 02:08, Hector Martin <hec...@marcansoft.com> wrote: > tight. Can we get rid of the ps3flash and ps3fb preallocations to save > bootmem and just allocate them during device init like the other drivers > do? What is the reason for preallocating these?
The reason for that is to make sure the allocations will succeed. Chances are very slim you can allocate a contiguous 9 MiB buffer at any arbitrary time. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev