Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:53:06 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Expanding the size of "start" and "end" field in "struct resource" |
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:31:14PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Is there a reason why "start" and "end" field of "struct resource" are of > type unsigned long. My understanding is that "struct resource" can be used > to represent any system resource including physical memory. But unsigned > long is not suffcient to represent memory more than 4GB on PAE systems. > and compiler starts throwing warnings.
Please make this depend on the kernel being compiled with PAE. We don't need to bloat 32 bit kernels needlessly.
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