Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split() |
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:54:33 -0700 > > > I pointed out that we should use the flags to determine formatting > > options, e.g. I/O space is only 16 bits on x86. > > It's 64-bit on sparc64 :-) > > There's also the bit where we use a 32-bit resource_t on sparc32 > but encode the top 4-bits of the 36 bit physical I/O address in > the resource flags member.
So wouldn't it be better to switch those sparc32 configs to a 64-bit resource_t? I think all other platforms with 36-bit physical addresses went that way.
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