Re: [PATCH] Always use 64 bit addresses for the firmware memory map

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 20:23:38 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>>> resource_size_t should always be 64-bit on PAE now.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but this would affect non-PAE kernels too.
>>
>
> Yeah, I overlooked the comment about non-PAE. Should we just make
> resource_size_t 64 bits all the time? Or ignore inaccessible resources?
>

Ignore them, presumably (keeping in mind some of them may need to be
truncated.) We simply don't manage that space.

-hpa

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