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* 36-bit phys & 64-bit pte support
@ 2005-03-30 17:58 Kumar Gala
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From: Kumar Gala @ 2005-03-30 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matt Porter; +Cc: Linux PPC Embedded list

Matt,

It looks like you introduced two config options at one point, however 
they dont seem to be used consitently today.  I wanted to clarify the 
meaning that I'm going to try and go forward with:

CONFIG_PTE_64BIT - we have a 64-bit PTE
CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT - we have larger than 32-bit physical addresses

Its feasible to have support for CONFIG_PTE_64BIT while only supporting 
32-bit phys.  The intent would be if you needed more flags than you 
could handle in the 12 LSBs of the pte.

CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT will only effect things like ioremap, phys_addr_t, 
etc.

Do you agree with this interpretation?

- kumar 
  

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