Re: Struct UIO

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxx>]

Craig Dooley wrote:
> Theres a comment to change iov_base in struct iovec to a void * which would be 
> a pretty simple patch, just to cast it whenever doing math, but should it be 
> changed to be more forward thinking?  What about systems like x86 with PAE 
> where a pointer cant address the whole memory space?   I dont have the 
> FreeBSD sources on hand, but is it vm_offset_t?  Is this not an issue right 
> now?  Just a thought.
>
> -Craig

	For PAE, all physical address accesses are handled by u_int64_t
	pointers, just like in FreeBSD, they will be called vm_paddr_t
	and the kernel code will be modified to use it where
	appropriate.

	Cheers.

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