[RFC] [PATCH] PowerPC: Add 64-bit phys addr support to 32-bit pci.
Valentine Barshak
vbarshak at ru.mvista.com
Wed Sep 19 01:01:29 EST 2007
Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Valentine Barshak wrote:
>
>> Add 64-bit physical address support to PCI.
>
> Can you expand on your commit message. for example why do this? is it
> address a bug fix, etc..
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at ru.mvista.com>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/iomap.c | 4 +--
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c | 56
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> - k
>
Currently 32-bit pci code doesn't support 64-bit physical addresses.
We have to add 64-bit addr support in order to bring-up pci on PowerPC
440. Actually, this refers to the conversation started here:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-September/042267.html
Thanks,
Valentine.
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