On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:02:16 -0500 Josh Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a resend of a patch David sent out on May 7. Without it, the > PowerPC 44x port in 2.6.22 and on is broken. I've rebased it off of > Linus' current tree. Please consider pushing this soon. > > josh > > > At present, various parts of the serial code use unsigned long to > define resource addresses. This is a problem, because some 32-bit > platforms have physical addresses larger than 32-bits, and have mmio > serial uarts located above the 4GB point. > > This patch changes the type of mapbase in both struct uart_port and > struct plat_serial8250_port to resource_size_t, which can be > configured to be 64 bits on such platforms. The mapbase in > serial_struct can't safely be changed, because that structure is user > visible. This is something we should do, but I have recollections of Russell identifying problems with this patch, or at least an earlier version of it? > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This should have had Signed-off-by:you as well. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
