From: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti•com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k•org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: specify initrd location using 64-bit
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:02:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5050CE33.9060909@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUuQzD0bq8PifBea2-0Pk7RhmPA0-GAFprsk+vMxMGjGw@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/12/2012 12:16 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti•com> wrote:
>> On some PAE architectures, the entire range of physical memory could reside
>> outside the 32-bit limit. These systems need the ability to specify the
>> initrd location using 64-bit numbers.
>>
>> This patch globally modifies the early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch() function to
>> use 64-bit numbers instead of the current unsigned long.
>
>> -void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>> +void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(u64 start, u64 end)
>
> Why not phys_addr_t?
>
The rest of the memory specific bits of the device-tree code use u64 for
addresses, and I kept it the same for consistency.
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k•org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>
--
Thanks
- Cyril
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 18:02 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 [this message]
2012-09-12 19:58 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-09-12 22:08 ` Rob Herring
2012-09-13 6:47 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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