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Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: specify initrd location using 64-bit
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On 9/12/2012 12:16 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti.com> wrote:
>> On some PAE architectures, the entire range of physical memory could reside
>> outside the 32-bit limit.  These systems need the ability to specify the
>> initrd location using 64-bit numbers.
>>
>> This patch globally modifies the early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch() function to
>> use 64-bit numbers instead of the current unsigned long.
>
>> -void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>> +void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(u64 start, u64 end)
>
> Why not phys_addr_t?
>

The rest of the memory specific bits of the device-tree code use u64 for 
addresses, and I kept it the same for consistency.

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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>

-- 
Thanks
- Cyril