[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 19/21] Use uintptr_t for 32/64-bit compatibility

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Oct 11 06:52:59 CEST 2011


On Monday 10 October 2011 22:46:10 Aaron Williams wrote:
> Our OCTEON platform is a 64-bit SOC and we run it in the MIPS N32 ABI mode
> (64-bit registers, 32-bit address space).

right, n32 == 32bit pointers, so i don't consider that a port with 64bit 
pointer issues

> rather see drivers better make use of the proper mapping functions and
> support 64-bit physical addresses as well as use wrappers for accessing
> the PCI register space. (in our case all of our SOC registers require
> 64-bit addresses).

what exactly are "proper mapping functions" ?  you mean things like the 
kernel's ioremap() ?

also, please don't top post
-mike
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