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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:16:57 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc.
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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Always use 64 bit addresses for the firmware memory map
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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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