From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] More than 2G of memory on 64-bit hosts
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:28:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070625202826.GD3665@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580706251316q7f261d5u837b05ee0596ef68@mail.gmail.com>
Blue Swirl wrote:
> This patch removes the restriction of 2G ram size on 64-bit hosts.
> Theoretically Sparc32 on a SS-10 like machine could handle more than
> 62GB of memory.
>
> There seems to be problems in the boot BIOSes to manage even >2G
> memory sizes, I've found some in OpenBIOS but there are still many
> left.
>
> Any comments?
Probably it's time for host_phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long, for
clarity and improved portability.
Thiemo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-25 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-25 20:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] More than 2G of memory on 64-bit hosts Blue Swirl
2007-06-25 20:26 ` Michal Schulz
2007-06-25 20:52 ` Blue Swirl
2007-06-25 21:08 ` Michal Schulz
2007-06-26 2:03 ` Karl Magdsick
2007-06-26 8:00 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-06-26 13:54 ` Paul Brook
2007-06-27 10:26 ` Blue Swirl
2007-06-27 10:32 ` Julian Seward
2007-06-27 11:10 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-06-27 11:20 ` Julian Seward
2007-06-27 12:18 ` Marius Groeger
2007-06-27 12:32 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-07-06 19:20 ` Rob Landley
2007-06-29 14:26 ` Gwenole Beauchesne
2007-06-25 20:28 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2007-06-25 20:53 ` Blue Swirl
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