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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
To: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
Subject: Re: 2GB address space limit on 32-bit PowerPC Macintosh
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:31:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2dd506f0a6d4b03e771c0bc9d80735e6@embeddededge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4288E10A.9030408@mvista.com>


On May 16, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Mark A. Greer wrote:

> Oops...
> /me unintentionally stepped into the middle of a flame war  :)

Just pee on it :-)

> To be clear, "offender" == board that has an io_block_mapping below 
> the 3 GB line.

That is one of the obvious changes. You are likely to find some other 
assumptions
that may need attention.  The problem with io_block_mapping is you just 
can't
remove it, you have to fix up all of the code that is based on the 
assumption these
spaces are mapped.  You are likely to find yourself in a situation 
where you need
access to some board control registers before VM is set up and you can 
call
ioremap().  So, you will find yourself doing some hack in head.S to map 
BAT
registers to get access to this, which is exactly what 
io_block_mapping() does,
only in a way that is obvious :-)

Thanks.


	-- Dan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-16 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-15 22:36 2GB address space limit on 32-bit PowerPC Macintosh John Reiser
2005-05-15 23:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-15 23:29   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-05-15 23:34     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-16  5:51       ` Kumar Gala
2005-05-16  5:52         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-16  6:21           ` Kumar Gala
2005-05-16  6:22             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-16 15:04             ` Dan Malek
2005-05-16 15:05               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-16 15:52                 ` Dan Malek
2005-05-16 16:42                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-16 17:11                     ` Dan Malek
2005-05-17  0:54                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-16 18:00                     ` Mark A. Greer
2005-05-16 18:06                       ` Mark A. Greer
2005-05-16 20:31                         ` Dan Malek [this message]
2005-05-16 20:43                           ` Mark A. Greer
2005-05-16 21:02                             ` Dan Malek
2005-05-17  3:14                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-17  0:56                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-16 16:11                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2005-05-16 16:22                   ` Eugene Surovegin

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