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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, hch@lst.de, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 00:25:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030904002541.12ae4fa5.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030904071334.GA14426@lst.de>

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:13:34 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:33:57AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > I don't see why this is a problem.  The change is compatible with the
> > existing uses.  We need to be able to map 36-bit physical addresses on
> > 44x.  What we really need now is 64-bit start/end values in struct
> > resource.
> 
> Then add the phys_addr_t to all places where we deal with physical
> addresses, even if it's typedef'ed to unsigned long on all other
> arches and sane ppcs.

Or do what I do on sparc32, stick the >32bit part in the unused
bits of the resource flags.  It works perfectly fine.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-04  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-03 20:32 [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04  0:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04  7:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04  7:25     ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-04  7:30     ` Russell King
2003-09-04  7:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04  8:09         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04  8:12           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04  8:10             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04  8:28               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 10:06                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-04 11:03                 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 12:21                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 12:41                     ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 12:41                       ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 12:57                       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 15:58                         ` Deepak Saxena
2003-09-04 16:15                           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 16:36                           ` Jes Sorensen
2003-09-04 23:18                         ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-05 20:56                           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 16:41                     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 16:43                       ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 17:06                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 17:03                           ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 17:16                             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 17:13                       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-04 17:24                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-05  8:02                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-04  8:22             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04  9:29           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 10:07             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-04  9:21       ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04  9:36         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04  9:48           ` Russell King
2003-09-04  9:51             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 12:38               ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 12:59             ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 13:01               ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 14:15                 ` Matt Porter
2003-09-04 14:12                   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 13:30               ` Russell King
2003-09-04 15:50               ` Deepak Saxena
2003-09-04 16:09                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 10:34           ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 10:33             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 12:42             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-04 12:43               ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 14:36           ` Matt Porter
2003-09-04 14:30             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 15:26               ` Matt Porter
2003-09-04 16:03                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 15:35             ` Linus Torvalds

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