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Hi,

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> Well yes :)  But I think that's because you're thinking of 
> "end-users" and I'm thinking of "users" like myself - ie. _I_ use
> Kconfig and I do expect myself to be able to type a 64-bit address.

That doesn't really answer my question, why you need this.

> > > --- .config.orig	2008-07-08 09:30:00.000000000 +1000
> > > +++ .config	2008-07-08 09:30:43.000000000 +1000
> > > @@ -370,9 +370,8 @@
> > >  CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_RPA=m
> > >  CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_RPA_DLPAR=m
> > >  # CONFIG_HAS_RAPIDIO is not set
> > > -CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xc000000000000000
> > > -CONFIG_KERNEL_START=0xc000000002000000
> > > -CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x02000000
> > > +CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xc0000000
> > > +CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x2000000
> > 
> > Why is this worse? These are constants, you're not supposed to change them 
> > anyway.
> > The remaining values are generated in page.h and should be the same as 
> > before. If that isn't the case and this patch produces a nonworking 
> > kernel, I'd like to hear about it.
> 
> You're right the built kernel is fine. So it's not a bug,

Good, could someone please ack whether the powerpc changes are acceptable?

> but I think it is nicer to have the real values in the .config.

Why?

bye, Roman