From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cov@codeaurora.org (Christopher Covington) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:49:50 -0500 Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/1] arm64: Add support for 48-bit Physical Address In-Reply-To: <1393394310-6138-2-git-send-email-mohun106@gmail.com> References: <1393394310-6138-1-git-send-email-mohun106@gmail.com> <1393394310-6138-2-git-send-email-mohun106@gmail.com> Message-ID: <530DF0FE.3050602@codeaurora.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Radha, On 02/26/2014 12:58 AM, mohun106 at gmail.com wrote: > From: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla > > Added support for ARMv8 platforms that have 48-bit physical address > implemented. There is no change in the VA bits and levels of > translation. Is there benefit to using build-time constants for this information? Why not look up the physical address range at run time, so that a single kernel binary could run on any system? Thanks, Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation.