Re: RFC: 64-bit resources and changes to pci, ioremap, ...

2005-07-29 Thread Doug Reiland
current pentium4 have this problem as well. Shouldn't need to use the emt64 (x86_64) mode. It takes i/o bridges and MCH to support it, but the latest Intel ones do. However, I am pretty sure BIOSes wouldn't assign the pci/pci-e addresses > 4GIG so most are not impacted. --- Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PRO

Re: RFC: 64-bit resources and changes to pci, ioremap, ...

2005-07-29 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 29 2005, at 10:53, Kumar Gala was caught saying: > The main issue that I'm starting to see is that the concept of a > physical address from the processors point of view needs to be > consistent throughout all subsystems of the kernel. Currently the > major usage of struct resource is

RFC: 64-bit resources and changes to pci, ioremap, ...

2005-07-29 Thread Kumar Gala
As I started to update the existing patches to make struct resource have 64-bit start and end values I started to see all the places that this effects and was hoping to get some discussion on what direction we want to take. One of the main reasons to make this change is to handle processors