On 07/01/2013 11:52 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > On some PAE architectures, the entire range of physical memory could reside > outside the 32-bit limit. These systems need the ability to specify the > initrd location using 64-bit numbers. > > This patch globally modifies the early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch() function to > use 64-bit numbers instead of the current unsigned long. > > There has been quite a bit of debate about whether to use u64 or phys_addr_t. > It was concluded to stick to u64 to be consistent with rest of the device > tree code. As summarized by Geert, "The address to load the initrd is decided > by the bootloader/user and set at that point later in time. The dtb should not > be tied to the kernel you are booting" > > More details on the discussion can be found here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/20/690 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/13/544 > > Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]> > Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> > Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> > Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <[email protected]> > Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]> > Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]> > Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]> > Cc: James Hogan <[email protected]> > Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]> > Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]> > Cc: Jonas Bonn <[email protected]> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]> > Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > > Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]> > ---
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]> [For arch/arc bits] -Vineet _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
