On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:48 AM Sascha Hauer <s.ha...@pengutronix.de> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:55:48PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote: > > In order to allow access to second half of address space on 64-bit > > machines, add code that creates /dev/highmem dedicated for that. > > Very nice series, I applied it right away with the exception of this > patch.
Cool, thanks! > I don't like naming it "highmem" because normally this describes > a hardware feature, namely a technique for reaching memory that is > outside the CPUs address space. What we have here is a technique for > reaching memory that is outside the range of a poorly chosen variable > type ;) > > That said my alternative suggestions are not very striking and range > from /dev/mem1 to /dev/uppermem or /dev/mem-upper. Any other ideas? > /dev/mem1 seems a bit less self-descriptive and might cause end user confusion. Ether /dev/uppermem of /dev/mem-upper would probably be the best. Let me know if you want me to re-spin the last patch with either. Thanks, Andrey Smirnov _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
