On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:43 -0600, Becky Bruce wrote:
> Convert the lmb code to use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long for
> physical addresses and sizes.  This is needed to support large amounts
> of RAM on 32-bit systems that support 36-bit physical addressing.
> 
> Built/booted on mpc8641; build tested on pasemi and 44x.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> Folks,
> 
> This has been sitting in my tree for a few days, and now it looks like
> David M. has submitted a patch that changes the lmb code to be shared
> between sparc and powerpc.  Sparc has no notion of a phys_addr_t.
> Should we just use u64 everywhere in this code instead?  Thoughts?

An option would be to use resource_size_t, though it's a bit yucky...

Dave, what do you prefer ?

Ben.


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