From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kyle@mcmartin.ca
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only show RESOURCES_64BIT on relevant architectures
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:09:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071028.180949.233462591.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071028201549.GA23138@fattire.cabal.ca>
From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:15:49 -0400
> To quote lolcats: CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT DO NOT WANT!
>
> I *think* I have the logic of this right... Anyway, I was annoyed by
> having to do the bloody ugly casts to unsigned long long in
> arch-specific code. As near as I can tell, we only want this selectable
> in the case of PAE on x86, and some random PPC and MIPS embedded boards.
>
> For everyone else, it should be whatever the value of 64BIT is.
>
> And I can be happy and continue using unsigned long and going about my
> merry business.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
32-bit sparc has 36-bit physical addresses and thus needs
64-bit resources too
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-28 20:15 [PATCH] Only show RESOURCES_64BIT on relevant architectures Kyle McMartin
2007-10-29 1:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-29 15:11 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-10-29 8:10 ` Russell King
2007-10-29 15:21 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-10-29 15:50 ` Russell King
2007-10-30 2:48 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-10-30 3:03 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-30 8:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-30 11:42 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-10-30 12:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-30 14:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-10-30 20:00 ` Russell King
2007-10-30 14:19 ` Kumar Gala
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