[U-Boot] T4QDS e6500 core and U-Boot 64-bit

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Jan 24 21:24:01 CET 2014


On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 14:45 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Danny,
> 
> In message <52E15BAD.1020400 at coloradoengineeringinc.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes - if you add support for 64 bit configurations in general, and
> > > for powerpc64 in particular.
> > I don't even have a sense for what would be involved here. How 
> > fundamentally would the U-Boot code need to change?
> 
> It's probably heavy.  There is a ton of places where we assume we can
> put an address in a "long" data type, etc.

That's not a problem on 64-bit.  It's putting a pointer in an "int" that
breaks.

-Scott




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