From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShSSy-00008Q-PA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:29:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShSSx-00062M-6w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:29:32 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:53091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShSSw-00061u-UY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:29:31 -0400 Message-ID: <1340227763.28143.170.camel@pasglop> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:29:23 +1000 In-Reply-To: <4FE23D1F.3090408@codemonkey.ws> References: <1340087992-2399-1-git-send-email-benh@kernel.crashing.org> <1340087992-2399-2-git-send-email-benh@kernel.crashing.org> <4FE23D1F.3090408@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Better support for dma_addr_t variables List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, David Gibson On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 16:14 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Why not make life easy and fix dma_addr_t to 64-bit? No opinion on my side, that's from the original patch series, I suppose the goal was to avoid the overhead/bloat on 32-bit only platforms/targets. Cheers, Ben.