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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:56:35 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] memory hotplug prototype
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> At Wed, 07 Apr 2004 11:12:55 -0700,
> Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > This is an updated version of memory hotplug prototype patch, which I
>> > have posted here several times.
>> 
>> I really, really suggest you take a look at Dave McCracken's work, which
>> he posted as "Basic nonlinear for x86" recently. It's going to be much
>> much easier to use this abstraction than creating 1000s of zones ...
> 
> Well, I think his patch is orthogonal to mine.  My ultimate target
> is IA64 and it will only support node-sized memory hotplugging.

Are you saying you're only creating a patch for ia64 only, rather than
an arch-independant one?

M.