The bootmem patch is an experimental patch using an alternative
mechanism for tracking bootmem allocations. Some of its specific goals
are directed toward handling sparse and irregular memory layouts, and
also within the source are comments explaining in more detail the code's
motivations, goals, and mechanisms.

While some assistance has been received from the core team, this
patch is still very experimental, immature, and it is not necessarily
the case that there is any consensus that this should become the
mainline kernel's mechanism. Also, although quite a bit of verification
of present functionality is underway, more features are to come, and so
this implementation is even also incomplete.

This said, the author is grateful for any testing done on his behalf,
and any reports of either success or failure of operation on any
architecture are much appreciated.

-- wli Sun Nov 25 16:33:23 PST 2001