Dear Andrew,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> What about suicidal things like accessing a bus region that hangs the
> machine, hitting the one address that resets the whole thing? Yes, I
> know that's broken design, but hardware like that exists, and is not
> going to change because
>> I would love to see memory addresses get parsed through a common
>> routine - that would allow easily hooking in an arch/platform specific
>> routine to filter out addresses that should be avoided.
>
> U-Boot is not supposed to do any such filtering.
>
> "UNIX was not designed to stop you from d
Hi Becky,
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Becky Bruce wrote:
> We're going to be seeing more platforms with larger physical addresses
> (PA) than virtual addresses (VA) supported in u-boot, and this kind of
> ruins the current assumption inherent in much of u-boot that VA ==
> PA. On ppc, we've be
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Jerry,
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> How would xlat know which direction it is to translate?
>
> From the argument that is passed to it:
>
> xlat 1234
> or
> xlat 0x1234
>
> are taken as VA's (see discussion about default address
> inte
Dear Andrew,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > - Initially, a xlat (or insert better name here) command-line command
> > will be added to give you a PA given a VA, and vice-versa.
>
> virt_to_phys and phys_to_virt?
C'me on, we actually have to *type* that command every now and the
Dear Jerry,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> How would xlat know which direction it is to translate?
>From the argument that is passed to it:
xlat 1234
or
xlat 0x1234
are taken as VA's (see discussion about default address
interpretation), so "xlat" will print the
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Becky Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We're going to be seeing more platforms with larger physical addresses
> (PA) than virtual addresses (VA) supported in u-boot, and this kind of
> ruins the current assumption inherent in much of u-boot that VA ==
>
Hi Becky,
Becky Bruce wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We're going to be seeing more platforms with larger physical addresses
> (PA) than virtual addresses (VA) supported in u-boot, and this kind of
> ruins the current assumption inherent in much of u-boot that VA ==
> PA. On ppc, we've begin implement
Folks,
We're going to be seeing more platforms with larger physical addresses
(PA) than virtual addresses (VA) supported in u-boot, and this kind of
ruins the current assumption inherent in much of u-boot that VA ==
PA. On ppc, we've begin implementing the ability to actually
translate VA
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