asm-powerpc/highmem.h missing

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Wed Feb 8 21:51:14 EST 2006


 On Wed, Feb 08, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:34:39 +0100 Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Why was asm-ppc/highmem.h not migrated? linux/highmem.h and pagemap.h wants it.
> 
> I guess it was not migrated because it is only required for CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> and, of course, ppc64 does not need HIGHMEM and presumably noone has tried
> to build with CONFIG_HIGHMEM set in ARCH=powerpc until now.

Well, thats not really true, ppc32 builds/works just fine with that, if you
want to use more than 768MB.
The quickcam kernel module did include pagemap.h, but it works just fine
without it. So nothing needs to be changed in the kernel.

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