Re: [PATCH 1/2] add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:50 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Are we sure resource_size_t is -never- used to represent memory ? I
> > though it was on some platforms....
> 
> On x86 it's optionally used to put memory in the resource tree, but if 
> the memory is larger than can be held in resource_size_t it simply skips 
> it.  Don't know about elsewhere.

That sounds like a good enough reason to not separate the two concepts..

Ben.


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