From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti•com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro•org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] of: Specify initrd location using 64-bit
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:50:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51ED469A.9000801@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130720053945.C7AC63E0C52@localhost>
On Saturday 20 July 2013 01:39 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:34:26 -0500, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail•com> wrote:
>> On 07/01/2013 01:20 PM, Santosh Shilimkar 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.
>>>
>>> There has been quite a bit of debate about whether to use u64 or phys_addr_t.
>>> It was concluded to stick to u64 to be consistent with rest of the device
>>> tree code. As summarized by Geert, "The address to load the initrd is decided
>>> by the bootloader/user and set at that point later in time. The dtb should not
>>> be tied to the kernel you are booting"
>>
>> That was quoting me. Otherwise:
>>
>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda•com>
>>
>> Unless Grant feels compelled to pick this up for 3.11, I think it has to
>> wait for 3.12.
>
> Nope, 3.12 is fine. Applied.
>
Thanks Grant.
Regards,
Santosh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-22 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-01 18:20 [PATCH v2] of: Specify initrd location using 64-bit Santosh Shilimkar
2013-07-01 21:34 ` Rob Herring
2013-07-20 5:39 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-22 14:50 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2013-07-02 4:17 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-07-22 15:01 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
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