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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:20:25 -0500
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On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:

> This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space,  
> e.g.
> IBM/AMCC PPC44x) to run with more than 2GB of RAM. Mostly its just
> replacing types (unsigned long -> phys_addr_t).

should the commit header really be >= 4G.  I don't think there is any  
issue with 2-4G support as it stands.
>
>
> Tested on an AMCC Katmai with 4GB of DDR2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>

- k