On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 02:08, Hector Martin <[email protected]> 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
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