asm-powerpc/highmem.h missing

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 9 02:00:39 EST 2006


On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:

>  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.
>
> zaptel wants it as well, via netdevice.h/skbuff.h. I wonder why 32bit
> compiles anyway, given the many users of linux/highmem.h. Looking...
>
>
>
>
> Argh, still these hacks:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 olaf users 64 2006-02-04 13:16 arch/powerpc/include/ 
> asm ->
> /home/olaf/kernel/olh/ppc64/linux-2.6.16-rc2-olh/include/asm-ppc/
>
> So better move it over quick.

You do realize there are a slew of headers in include/asm-ppc/ that  
we use in the arch/powerpc builds for ppc32.

- kumar



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