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Kumar Gala wrote:
> Why, the way this patch makes it will work both with a 32-bit or 36-bit address map.   The comment should be fixed since its wrong.

I think the BSP team had said that there is a significant performance
improvement in some benchmark when 36-bit support is disabled.  That's why they
like to keep 32-bit and 36-bit environments for both, and why they default to
32-bit.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale