[U-Boot-Users] PPC970FX 64-bit processor

Mon Jan 10 16:45:34 CET 2005

In message <5C4013D09582FF41833487F21C085CF991ADCE at Hqexch02.il.marvell.com> you wrote:
> 
> U-Boot is running as a 64-bit binary on the IBM-970FX (PPC64 CPU arch),
> on one of Marvell evaluation boards (Pythagoras family)!!!

Congratulations!!!!

> I want to add 64-bit support to some of the *COMMON* files, 
> starting with cmd_mem.c. The commands are followed with [.b, .w, .l] 
> represents display option: 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit, accordingly. 
> Will it be ok to change it to [.b, .s, .w, .l] for 8, 16, 32, and 64?

No, this is not acceptable, as it would break backwards compatibility.

> If it is not acceptable what do you suggest? new cmd_mem64.c? other?

The BDI2000 telnet interface (which was one of my references for  the
"b" and "w" suffixes) uses "d" for "double" to access 64 bit objects.
I think we should do the same and add ".d" [=> .b, .w, .l, .d].

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> Content-Type: text/html
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">

And *please* don't post HTML to this list.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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