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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Specify initrd location using 64-bit
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:09:34 +0200
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On 07/01/2013 09:59 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> That's actual the original reason: DT has it as 64 bit, and passes it to a
> 32 bit kernel when running in 32 bit mode without PAE.

And I think the DT code should check if the u64 fits in phys_addr_t and
if does not it should write an error message and act like no initrd was
specified (instead of passing "something" to the architecture).

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 

Sebastian