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Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:51 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On x86_64 the dma_addr_t and the ulong are both 64bit so the problem
> doesn't arise. 

Yes it does ... apparently 32 bit kernel on x86_64 is a lot more common
than people suppose.  In > 4GB this is exactly PAE.

James