Re: RFC: Devices, buses and hotplug

Steve Willer (willer@interlog.com)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:56:25 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> Intel Xeon - 32bit void* 36 bit addressing for one. If we want to support
> this lets not dig a hole now. physaddr_t as was suggested by JJ seems smart

Is anybody planning on implementing this soon? This would solve a lot of
problems on large-memory ia32 machines. I might play with it myself, but
I don't think I know the kernel well enough at this point to be very
successful.

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