Re: [RFC][PATCH] Expanding the size of "start" and "end" field in "struct resource"

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:31:14PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Is there a reason why "start" and "end" field of "struct resource" are of
> type unsigned long. My understanding is that "struct resource" can be used
> to represent any system resource including physical memory. But unsigned
> long is not suffcient to represent memory more than 4GB on PAE systems. 
> and compiler starts throwing warnings. 

Please make this depend on the kernel being compiled with PAE.  We don't 
need to bloat 32 bit kernels needlessly.

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