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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] More than 2G of memory on 64-bit hosts


From: Blue Swirl
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] More than 2G of memory on 64-bit hosts
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:53:53 +0300

On 6/25/07, Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden> wrote:
Blue Swirl wrote:
> This patch removes the restriction of 2G ram size on 64-bit hosts.
> Theoretically Sparc32 on a SS-10 like machine could handle more than
> 62GB of memory.
>
> There seems to be problems in the boot BIOSes to manage even >2G
> memory sizes, I've found some in OpenBIOS but there are still many
> left.
>
> Any comments?

Probably it's time for host_phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long, for
clarity and improved portability.

Good idea, I'll make a new patch using that.




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