[PATCH 1/3] PCI: Introduce pci_bus_addr_t

Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas at google.com
Sat Apr 4 20:25:03 PDT 2015


On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> wrote:

>> I think there's still an unresolved question about the OF parsing code.
>
> Got a pointer to what that is? I'll take a guess. Generally, we make
> the parsing code independent of the kernel addr sizes and use u64
> types. The DT sizes and kernel sizes are not always aligned. For
> example, an LPAE capable platform running a non-LPAE kernel build.

Yep: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427857069-6789-3-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org

Yinghai made a change to the sparc OF parsing code.  The question is
whether a similar change should be made to clones of that code (two
others in arch/sparc, one in arch/powerpc, and one in drivers/of).

Bjorn



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