Re: [PATCH] Early kmalloc/kfree

On Fri, 9 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think that is a really really bad idea.   slab is already complex enough
> and adding scary hacks like this will probably make it collapse
> under its own weight at some point.

Seconded.

Maybe we can solve this by bringing the system up in a limited 
configuration and then discover additional capabilities during ACPI 
discovery and reconfigure.
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