On Monday 25 June 2007, 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?
One from me, if you like... Just don't use the "unsigned long" type. The
intptr_t type would be better (it's 32-bit on 32-bit systems and 64-bit on
64-bit systems).