Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] PNPACPI: fix types when decoding ACPI resources [resend]

matthieu castet
2005-08-04T12:40:04Z

Hi,

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 3:16 pm, matthieu castet wrote:
>
>>Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> > drivers/char/hpet.c
>> > This probably should be converted to PNP. I'll
>> > look into doing this.
>>IIRC, I am not sure that the pnp layer was able to pass the 64 bits
>>memory adress for hpet correctly. But it would be nice if it works.
>
>
> You're right, this was broken. But I've been pushing a PNPACPI
> patch to fix this.
>
>
Yes but is ACPI_RSTYPE_ADDRESS64 possible on 32 bit machine ?
In this case your patch won't work as res->mem_resource[i].start and
res->mem_resource[i].end are unsigned long, and 64 bit value won't fit.

Matthieu