From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Rupert Eibauer <rupert@ces.ch>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFT] Extended BAT features, take 2
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:55:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130061332.7919.63.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510231136.51548.rupert@ces.ch>
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:36 +0200, Rupert Eibauer wrote:
> On Sunday 23 October 2005 02:39, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Rupert Eibauer writes:
> >
> > > What this patch actually does:
> > > - Make CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT selectable for the 6xx family
> >
> > Why? What does this gain us?
>
> I have I/O resources there which are not reachable in 32 bit mode.
>
> > We still can't use RAM above the 4GB point AFAICS.
>
> Does this mean the page tables do not support 63 bit?
Not with the current code. At least not for those CPUs.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-23 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-22 13:54 [PATCH][RFT] Extended BAT features, take 2 Rupert Eibauer
2005-10-23 0:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-23 9:36 ` Rupert Eibauer
2005-10-23 9:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-10-23 11:03 ` Rupert Eibauer
2005-10-23 13:27 ` Rupert Eibauer
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