From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: asm-powerpc/highmem.h missing
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:51:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060208105114.GA11847@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060208211600.28252f22.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
On Wed, Feb 08, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:34:39 +0100 Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Why was asm-ppc/highmem.h not migrated? linux/highmem.h and pagemap.h wants it.
>
> I guess it was not migrated because it is only required for CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> and, of course, ppc64 does not need HIGHMEM and presumably noone has tried
> to build with CONFIG_HIGHMEM set in ARCH=powerpc until now.
Well, thats not really true, ppc32 builds/works just fine with that, if you
want to use more than 768MB.
The quickcam kernel module did include pagemap.h, but it works just fine
without it. So nothing needs to be changed in the kernel.
--
short story of a lazy sysadmin:
alias appserv=wotan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 9:34 asm-powerpc/highmem.h missing Olaf Hering
2006-02-08 10:16 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-02-08 10:51 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-02-08 12:40 ` Olaf Hering
2006-02-08 15:00 ` Kumar Gala
2006-02-09 14:44 ` Olaf Hering
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