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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
Cc: "akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 006/198] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:44:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050413084427.A1798@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd57c900504122010430af248@mail.gmail.com>; from coywolf@gmail.com on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:10:35AM +0800

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:10:35AM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> I told rmk about this long time ago.

The kernel is a mess of DMA masks and maximum PFNs which all assume
that memory always starts at zero, which I've mentioned before as
well.

I might see about fixing this up properly when it causes real
problems, but until then its better to document the behaviour.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-13  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-12 10:30 [patch 006/198] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn akpm
2005-04-13  3:10 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-04-13  4:18   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-04-13  7:44   ` Russell King [this message]

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