Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:09:49 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Only show RESOURCES_64BIT on relevant architectures | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:15:49 -0400
> To quote lolcats: CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT DO NOT WANT! > > I *think* I have the logic of this right... Anyway, I was annoyed by > having to do the bloody ugly casts to unsigned long long in > arch-specific code. As near as I can tell, we only want this selectable > in the case of PAE on x86, and some random PPC and MIPS embedded boards. > > For everyone else, it should be whatever the value of 64BIT is. > > And I can be happy and continue using unsigned long and going about my > merry business. > > Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
32-bit sparc has 36-bit physical addresses and thus needs 64-bit resources too - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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