Re: [PATCH 16/16] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes

Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-14T12:20:28Z

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Introduce the Kconfig entry and actually switch to a 64bit value, if
> wanted, for resource_size_t.

> diff --git a/arch/m68k/Kconfig b/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> index 805b81f..22dcaa5 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> @@ -368,6 +368,13 @@ config 060_WRITETHROUGH
>
> source "mm/Kconfig"
>
> +config RESOURCES_32BIT
> + bool "32 bit Memory and IO resources (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> + depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> + help
> + By default resources are 64 bit. This option allows memory and IO
> + resources to be 32 bit to optimize code size.
> +
> endmenu

Why is the default 64 bit? Because 32 bit became experimental?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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