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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@de.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow drivers to map individual 4k pages to userspace
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:14:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17939.13376.772183.912217@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adamz1odbpr.fsf@cisco.com>

Roland Dreier writes:

> If I'm going off on something irrelevant, just tell me.  But is there
> a chance that you would want to build a kernel that can boot on both a
> platform that has eHCA, and also on some other platform that cannot
> support remap_4k_pfn?

In a word, no. :)

Only 64-bit machines have eHCA.  A 64-bit powerpc kernel only supports
64-bit machines, and all 64-bit powerpc machines can support
remap_4k_pfn.  I don't see any difficulty arising with future 64-bit
embedded processors either.

Paul.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03 11:24 [PATCH] Allow drivers to map individual 4k pages to userspace Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04  2:34 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-04  3:23   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04  4:07     ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-04  4:43       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04  5:14       ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2007-04-04  4:41   ` Paul Mackerras

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