Re: [patch 006/198] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn

From: Russell King
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 02:46:31 EST


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
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