Re: [PATCH 1/2] add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Mon Aug 11 2008 - 18:50:56 EST


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Are we sure resource_size_t is -never- used to represent memory ? I
though it was on some platforms....

On x86 it's optionally used to put memory in the resource tree, but if the memory is larger than can be held in resource_size_t it simply skips it. Don't know about elsewhere.

J

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