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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Patricia Gaughen <gone@us.ibm.com>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (1/2) i386 discontigmem support against 2.4.21pre1: paddr_to_pfn
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:12:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021212001242.A10910@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212112335.gBBNZpu04590@w-gaughen.beaverton.ibm.com>; from gone@us.ibm.com on Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:35:51PM -0800

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:35:51PM -0800, Patricia Gaughen wrote:
> It changes all references of node_start_paddr and zone_start_paddr 
> to node_start_pfn and zone_start_pfn.  This change is required to 
> support PAE for i386 discontigmem.  It allows a starting address 
> for a node or zone to be greater than 4GB. A version of this patch 
> is in the 2.4 aa tree and has also been accepted into the v2.5 tree 
> starting with 2.5.34.
> 
> I've tested this patch on the following configurations: UP, SMP, SMP PAE, 
> multiquad, multiquad PAE, multiquad DISCONTIGMEM, multiquad DISCONTIGMEM PAE.
> 
> Any and all feedback regarding this patch is greatly appreciated.

The patch looks cool.  If it was inline in the mail instead of beeing a
mime-attachment everyone could even see that easily 8)


      reply	other threads:[~2002-12-12  0:04 UTC|newest]

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2002-12-11 23:35 Patricia Gaughen
2002-12-12  0:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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