Extended Addressing Mode

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 22 23:31:06 EST 2008


On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Régis Odeyé wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> I'm looking for some information about the Extended Addressing Mode  
> (XAEN bit of HID0 register) of PPC32 support in Linux.
> I do not see anything in the main kernel tree but there may be some  
> patches available ?
> Any information will be appreciate.
> Regards.

There are patches from Becky Bruce that are going into 2.6.28.  What  
are you needing >32-bit for?  There are some SW IO MMU changes that  
are still pending to complete this work.

- k


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