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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:33:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215833634.7549.143.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E87ABEE7-3CD0-45E5-9806-BE3BAAFCFE1C@freescale.com>


> Are you *sure* you can see all 4GB?  I thought we lost some of the 32- 
> bit PCI address space for PCI IO......  Disclaimer: I'm no expert on  
> PCI :)

You are right. I didn't think that through when I replied. We do lose
some of it for MMIO (not IO). So we cannot really go all the way to 4G
because we can't DMA to all of it, right.

> FYI, I'm *very* close to having swiotlb fully functional on powerpc to  
> support larger RAM - I am able to boot with 6GB on 8641 right now.   
> There are some bugs that I'm still shaking out - I hope to push this  
> out in the next couple of weeks.

That won't make .27 then ?

Cheers,
Ben.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-12  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09 13:44 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM Stefan Roese
2008-07-09 14:20 ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-09 15:05   ` Stefan Roese
2008-07-09 20:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-09 20:22   ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-09 20:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-10  0:44       ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-10 15:31         ` Becky Bruce
2008-07-12  3:33           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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