From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:13:05 -0800

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >
> > Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:29:32PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > >> If the impact is very slight or unmeasurable this means the option
> > >> needs to fall under CONFIG_EMBEDDED, where you can change if
> > >> every last bit of RAM counts but otherwise you won't care.
> > >
> > > But we have a data type that is correct for this usage: dma_addr_t.
> > 
> > Well the name is wrong.  Because these are in general not DMA addresses,
> > but it may have the other desired properties.  So it may be
> > useable.
> 
> Yes, dma_addr_t does the right thing but has the wrong name.

No it doesn't.

It's 32-bit on Sparc64 because all DMA mappings go through
the IOMMU into a 32-bit window on PCI space.

But we do most certainly want to support full 64-bit BARs
in PCI devices on sparc64.
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