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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:28:26 +0100
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] More than 2G of memory on 64-bit hosts
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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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Blue Swirl wrote:
> This patch removes the restriction of 2G ram size on 64-bit hosts.
> Theoretically Sparc32 on a SS-10 like machine could handle more than
> 62GB of memory.
> 
> There seems to be problems in the boot BIOSes to manage even >2G
> memory sizes, I've found some in OpenBIOS but there are still many
> left.
> 
> Any comments?

Probably it's time for host_phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long, for
clarity and improved portability.


Thiemo