On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:26:13PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > Memory DIMM information & settings:
> >
> > Use a /proc/dimm_info interface to pass DIMM information to Linux.
> > Hardware vendors could add their hardware specific settings.
>
> I'd recommend a more generic name rather than "dimm_info" if that is to
> be reused universally.
Agree.
I'd also suggest that there be some method to tell the kernel from
architecture code about this "dimm_info" stuff - many embedded
platforms already know their memory organisation.
BTW, Russ, could we have a better description of what information is
intended to be supplied?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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