[PATCH] of: specify initrd location using 64-bit
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Thu Sep 13 02:16:09 EST 2012
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Cyril Chemparathy <cyril at ti.com> wrote:
> On some PAE architectures, the entire range of physical memory could reside
> outside the 32-bit limit. These systems need the ability to specify the
> initrd location using 64-bit numbers.
>
> This patch globally modifies the early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch() function to
> use 64-bit numbers instead of the current unsigned long.
> -void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> +void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(u64 start, u64 end)
Why not phys_addr_t?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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