Thread (3 messages) flat view 3 messages, 3 authors, 2008-02-13

Re: [RFC/PATCH] [POWERPC] Make lmb support large physical addressing

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2008-02-13 22:51:24
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On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:43 -0600, Becky Bruce wrote:
Convert the lmb code to use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long for
physical addresses and sizes.  This is needed to support large amounts
of RAM on 32-bit systems that support 36-bit physical addressing.

Built/booted on mpc8641; build tested on pasemi and 44x.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <redacted>
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Folks,

This has been sitting in my tree for a few days, and now it looks like
David M. has submitted a patch that changes the lmb code to be shared
between sparc and powerpc.  Sparc has no notion of a phys_addr_t.
Should we just use u64 everywhere in this code instead?  Thoughts?
An option would be to use resource_size_t, though it's a bit yucky...

Dave, what do you prefer ?

Ben.
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