Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:16:50 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make PFN_PHYS return a properly-formed physical address |
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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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