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Aggrwal Poonam-B10812 wrote:
>> Attached is a patch to fix large physical address support for the
>
> This is already being done by u-boot, should linux set it again?

Yikes! Took me 5 min to reformat your email.

Our version of U-boot does not but it's not latest greatest.

IMHO:
1) Linux should not be dependent on U-boot or any other bootloader, or 
at least as possible
2) U-boot cannot (and does not want to) know whether Linux is going to 
use large physical addresses.

Regards,

Micha