[PATCH 1/3] PCI: Introduce pci_bus_addr_t

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 06:05:33 PDT 2015


On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> wrote:
> 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).

Yes, it appears to me that is needed. At least the drivers/of/ code
does not distinguish 32 and 64 bit ATM.

Rob



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