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    [PATCH] enable meye even when CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y · 4b0f0461
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    The meye hardware needs to access the main memory for DMA using
    32 bit addresses. The previous version of the meye driver used
    dma_addr_t types to build those addresses and ensured that
    sizeof(dma_addr_t) = 4 by disabling HIGHMEM64G in Kconfig.
    
    However, this way of doing it also makes meye unavailable on
    some kernel configurations. As Arjan said previously, future Fedora
    kernels may have HIGHMEM64G activated by default (davej says it won't
    happen, at least for now...). Other distributions may do the same and
    this will require meye users to recompile the whole kernel.
    
    The attached patch makes the meye driver use dma_addr_t addresses 
    internally, but converts them to u32 before giving them to the
    hardware.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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