Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:11:58 -0400 | From | Kyle McMartin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Only show RESOURCES_64BIT on relevant architectures |
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:09:49PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > 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
I didn't realize this, since it wasn't set in any of the configs, or select-ed by any of the Kconfig. Will add this in the next go 'round.
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