From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: specify initrd location using 64-bit
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:47:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5051816A.3050705@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505107DF.5020105@gmail.com>
On 09/13/2012 12:08 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> Geert is right here. If it is a physical address, it should be
>> phys_addr_t.
>
> While generally true, for the DT specific code I think it should be a
> fixed u64. The size of the address is defined by the FDT, not the
> kernel. It is very likely we could have a FDT that specifies addresses
> in 64-bit values, but then we boot a kernel is compiled for !LPAE.
> phys_addr_t is currently sized based on LPAE setting.
If your kernel is 32bit without PAE and your DTB address is >32ibt than
you can't handle it. If you don't notice this in your dt code than you
remap the wrong memory ioremap().
>
> Rob
>
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 16:05 [PATCH] of: specify initrd location using 64-bit Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-12 16:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-09-12 18:02 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-12 19:58 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-09-12 22:08 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-13 6:47 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2012-09-13 21:02 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-12 20:23 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-12 20:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-12 20:56 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-12 23:45 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2013-06-21 0:52 [PATCH] of: Specify " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-21 4:39 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-06-21 8:23 ` James Hogan
2013-06-21 17:12 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-21 9:04 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-06-21 17:20 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-27 20:54 ` Rob Herring
2013-06-28 7:54 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-06-28 9:59 ` Grant Likely
2013-06-28 13:49 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-06-28 23:43 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-06-29 8:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-01 7:48 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-07-01 7:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-01 8:09 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-07-01 13:58 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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