Thread (9 messages) flat view 9 messages, 5 authors, 2008-07-12

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

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2008-07-12 03:34:33

Are you *sure* you can see all 4GB?  I thought we lost some of the 32- 
bit PCI address space for PCI IO......  Disclaimer: I'm no expert on  
PCI :)
You are right. I didn't think that through when I replied. We do lose
some of it for MMIO (not IO). So we cannot really go all the way to 4G
because we can't DMA to all of it, right.
FYI, I'm *very* close to having swiotlb fully functional on powerpc to  
support larger RAM - I am able to boot with 6GB on 8641 right now.   
There are some bugs that I'm still shaking out - I hope to push this  
out in the next couple of weeks.
That won't make .27 then ?

Cheers,
Ben.
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