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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make PFN_PHYS return a properly-formed physical address
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:45:12 -0700
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Shall we go with just using plain u64 (or unsigned long long if we want
>> a really consistent type) in the meantime, and then waffle about
>> introducing a new type everywhere?
>>
>> Or we could redefine resource_size_t to be big enough to refer to any
>> resource, including all memory. It's close to being that anyway.
>>
>
> We could do
>
> typedef resource_size_t jeremy_thing_t;
>
> for now and worry about it later if the need arises, perhaps.
>

OK, I'll revise and repost.

Hm, curiously, the two arches which care most about this issue (x86 and
powerpc) already have phys_addr_t...

I guess we don't want CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_PHYS_ADDR_T...

J


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