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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
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On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:50 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Are we sure resource_size_t is -never- used to represent memory ? I
> > though it was on some platforms....
>
> On x86 it's optionally used to put memory in the resource tree, but if
> the memory is larger than can be held in resource_size_t it simply skips
> it. Don't know about elsewhere.

That sounds like a good enough reason to not separate the two concepts..

Ben.




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