Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:02:38 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:44 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:

quoted

This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space, e.g.
IBM/AMCC PPC44x) to run with more than 2GB of RAM. Mostly its just
replacing types (unsigned long -> phys_addr_t).

Tested on an AMCC Katmai with 4GB of DDR2.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>

But DMAs will break no ?

How?

josh