From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:53:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from adsl-68-124-224-226.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([IPv6:::ffff:68.124.224.226]:48140 "EHLO goobz.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:53:01 +0100 Received: from [10.2.2.70] (adsl-63-194-214-47.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.214.47]) by goobz.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id i9AMqtu17858; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:52:55 -0700 Message-ID: <4169BD3B.1030908@embeddedalley.com> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:52:43 -0700 From: Pete Popov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Porter CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" Subject: Re: PATCH References: <1097428659.4627.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041010123305.A23745@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20041010123305.A23745@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 6001 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Matt Porter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:01:28PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Pete Popov wrote: >> >>>Ralf, or anyone else, any suggestions on how to get a patch like the one >>>below accepted in 2.6? It's needed due to the 36 bit address of the >>>pcmcia controller on the Au1x CPUs. >> >>Perhaps you can ask the PPC people? Book E PPC has 36-bit I/O as well. > > > FWIW, it's specifically PPC440 cores that have a 36-bit address space. > It should be noted that nobody has as of yet expressed public interest > in having PCMCIA working on PPC440. I just ran into a person with a > custom board last week interfacing a CF card that would need a similar > patch to handle ppc's phys_addr_t. > > To answer Pete's original question, I would suggest posting the patch > to http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia which is > where PCMCIA subsystem development conversations are taking place. It > might be good to cc: rmk since he's been the de facto PCMCIA > maintainer. I'll try that, thanks. If more SOCs needed this feature, it might have been possible to get it accepted in 2.4 a long time ago. With the PPC440, now it's not only the Au1x that needs the patch. Pete