Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Are you *sure* you can see all 4GB? I thought we lost some of the 32- > bit PCI address space for PCI IO.. Disclaimer: I'm no expert on > PCI :) You are right. I didn't think that through when I replied. We do lose some of it for MMIO (not IO). So we cannot really go all the way to 4G

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-10 Thread Becky Bruce
On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:39:39 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:22 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:02:38 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-09 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:39:39 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:22 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:02:38 +1000 > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:44 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:22 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:02:38 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:44 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote: > > > This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space, e.g. > > > IBM/AMCC PP

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-09 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:02:38 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:44 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote: > > This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space, e.g. > > IBM/AMCC PPC44x) to run with more than 2GB of RAM. Mostly its just > > repla

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:44 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote: > This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space, e.g. > IBM/AMCC PPC44x) to run with more than 2GB of RAM. Mostly its just > replacing types (unsigned long -> phys_addr_t). > > Tested on an AMCC Katmai with 4GB of DDR2. >

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-09 Thread Stefan Roese
On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Kumar Gala wrote: > On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Stefan Roese wrote: > > This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space, > > e.g. > > IBM/AMCC PPC44x) to run with more than 2GB of RAM. Mostly its just > > replacing types (unsigned long -> phys_addr_t). >

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-09 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Stefan Roese wrote: This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space, e.g. IBM/AMCC PPC44x) to run with more than 2GB of RAM. Mostly its just replacing types (unsigned long -> phys_addr_t). should the commit header really be >= 4G. I don't think

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with more than 2GB of RAM

2008-07-09 Thread Stefan Roese
This patch enables 32bit PPC's (with 36bit physical address space, e.g. IBM/AMCC PPC44x) to run with more than 2GB of RAM. Mostly its just replacing types (unsigned long -> phys_addr_t). Tested on an AMCC Katmai with 4GB of DDR2. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/m