Re: [RFC] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM

[Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@mips.com>]

Hi Serge,

On 19.12.2017 21:14, Serge Semin wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Almost a year ago I sent a patchset to the Linux MIPS community. The main 
> target of the patchset
> was to get rid from the old bootmem allocator usage at the MIPS architecture. 
> Additionally I had
> a problem with CMA usage on my MIPS machine due to some struct page-related 
> issue. Moving to the
> memblock allocator fixed the problem and gave us benefits like smaller memory 
> consumption,
> powerful memblock API to be used within the arch code.
>
> @marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com. Could you confirm if you are still interested in 
> the patchset and
> ready to update the Loongson64 platform code so one would be compatible with it?
I am currently working on different projects, but I will try to do my 
best to help with this (but just might require more time than I would 
otherwise need).
Given the scale of the task and the amount of testing required, I expect 
that it will take a while to get a complete set of patches reviewed and 
tested which should hopefully be enough to fix support for all platforms 
affected.
Marcin