Re: Boot time memory allocation

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:21:03AM +0800, Mark.Zhan wrote:

> >At kernel initialization time just don't tell the kernel about the
> >existence of your memory region.  For many systems that just means you
> >shrink the memory region passed to the add_memory_region() call to
> >something that suits your platform.

> Maybe it is a more flexible way to specify the memory regions via 
> command line. You know, this will produce User-defined memory regions to 
> kernel.

Maybe for a specific application or platform.  For a sourcebase like
linux-mips.org's with a very large number of users on sometimes very
complex platforms I'd never ever think of exposing such details.

  Ralf