From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>,
Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
"arm@kernel.org" <arm@kernel.org>,
linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org,
James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.c>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Specify initrd location using 64-bit
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:34:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWjaakS-hvor7Ftyr=g-iF2kbrLryn_+YFXDDN5tS_QOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CE1F92.3070802@ti.com>
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Santosh Shilimkar
<santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> wrote:
>>>>> Rob,
>>>>> Are you ok with phys_addr_t since your concern was about rest
>>>>> of the memory specific bits of the device-tree code use u64 ?
>>>>
>>>> No. I still think it should be u64 for same reasons I said originally.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>> +1
>>
>> fix type
>>
> Apart from waste of 32bit, what is the other concern you
> have ? I really want to converge on this patch because it
> has been a open ended discussion for quite some time. Does
> that really break any thing on x86 or your concern is more
> from semantics of the physical address.
As the "original reasons" were not in this thread, I had to search a bit.
I suppose you mean this one: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/13/544 ?
Summarized:
| The address to load the initrd is decided by the bootloader/user and set
| at that point later in time.
| The dtb should not be tied to the kernel you are booting.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-29 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 0:52 [PATCH] of: Specify initrd location using 64-bit Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-21 4:39 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-06-21 8:23 ` James Hogan
2013-06-21 17:12 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-21 9:04 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-06-21 17:20 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-27 20:54 ` Rob Herring
2013-06-28 7:54 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
[not found] ` <51CCA67C.2010803-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-28 9:59 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <CACxGe6vOH0sCFVVXrYqD3dbYdOvithVu7-d1cvy5885i8x_Myw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-28 13:49 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-06-28 23:43 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-29 8:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
[not found] ` <51CE1F92.3070802-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-01 7:48 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-07-01 7:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-01 8:09 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-07-01 13:58 ` Santosh Shilimkar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-12 16:05 [PATCH] of: specify " Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-12 16:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-09-12 18:02 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-12 19:58 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-09-12 22:08 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-13 6:47 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-09-13 21:02 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-12 20:23 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-12 20:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-12 20:56 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-12 23:45 ` Cyril Chemparathy
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