[PATCH] Always use 64 bit addresses for the firmware memory map

H. Peter Anvin hpa at kernel.org
Wed Nov 12 20:16:57 EST 2008


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>  
>>> resource_size_t should always be 64-bit on PAE now.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, but this would affect non-PAE kernels too.
>>   
> 
> Yeah, I overlooked the comment about non-PAE.  Should we just make
> resource_size_t 64 bits all the time?  Or ignore inaccessible resources?
> 

Ignore them, presumably (keeping in mind some of them may need to be
truncated.)  We simply don't manage that space.

	-hpa




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