From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Modpost warning on Alchemy
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:25:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070802092538.GC22697@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64N.0708011727150.20314@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:33:25PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > Which happens to be the solution that is Linus-incompatible so I may
> > eventually have to change it ;-)
>
> Well, however we do it, the width of the physical address cookie used
> with ioremap() should not be forced to be related to the width of the
> virtual address space in any way. I see no reason for us to be crippled
> by limitations of some other architectures or, worse yet, by ones of some
> code specific to some other platform.
It's the physical not virtual address and as you say yourself it's a cookie
so could potencially be some opaque value that isn't a physical address
at all. And I wouldn't quite call it crippling that's certainly way
exagerated.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 11:52 Modpost warning on Alchemy Ralf Baechle
2007-08-01 12:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 12:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 13:13 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 13:18 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 15:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 15:44 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 16:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 16:37 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 16:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 17:06 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 9:14 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 12:49 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 13:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 14:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 14:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 17:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-02 9:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 17:09 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 9:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 10:15 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-02 10:17 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 12:53 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 13:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 13:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 14:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 14:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-01 15:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 15:58 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-01 16:00 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 16:21 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-01 16:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 9:25 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-08-02 9:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 16:01 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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