Re: [PATCH] Introduce mips_late_time_init

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Running everything from late_time_init() instead allows the use of kmalloc.
> X86 has the same issue with requiring kmalloc in time_init which is why
> they had moved everything to late_time_init.

It's more ioremap, but yeah.
 
> So the real question is, why can't we just move the call of time_init()
> in setup_kernel() to where late_time_init() is getting called from for
> all architectures, does anything rely on it getting called early?

That's a good question and I asked it myself already. I can't see a
real reason why something would need it early. Definitely worth to
try.

Thanks,

        tglx