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

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:32:14 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
CC:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Always use 64 bit addresses for the firmware memory map

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?

    J
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