[PATCH 6/16] Port 44x MMU definitions to ARCH=powerpc

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Feb 14 04:45:41 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:13 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > > +typedef unsigned long long phys_addr_t;
>  > > +extern phys_addr_t fixup_bigphys_addr(phys_addr_t, phys_addr_t);
>  > > +#define PHYS_FMT	"%16Lx"
>  > 
>  > Do we still need that fixup code ? Since we now have full 64 bits
>  > capable ioremap, we don't need to play tricks anymore. I'd rather get
>  > rid of them completely.
> 
> Maybe make the fixup code print a warning when it actually changes an
> address below 4G so we can track down all the places relying on this?

That sounds like a good idea.  As boards get ported over, the authors
will hopefully fix them up.

josh




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