Re: [PATCH] Only show RESOURCES_64BIT on relevant architectures

David Miller
2007-10-29T01:09:56Z

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