Re: [PATCH v7 09/16] libnvdimm, pmem: move pmem to drivers/nvdimm/

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed Jul 01 2015 - 12:41:47 EST


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Prepare the pmem driver to consume PMEM namespaces emitted by regions of
>> an nvdimm_bus instance. No functional change.
>
> As LIBNVDIMM depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT, the driver can no
> longer be enabled on pure 32-bit platforms. Is that intended?

Yes it was intentional. It still allows 32-bit platforms with 64-bit
resource_size_t to compile. Do you otherwise have a 32-bit use case
for pmem? I'm of course open to working through the changes to add
wider architecture support.
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