[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: global_data: change timebase_l/h to unsigned int

Peng Fan peng.fan at nxp.com
Tue Apr 25 20:51:29 UTC 2017


Hi Simon,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sjg at google.com [mailto:sjg at google.com] On Behalf Of Simon Glass
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 11:38 AM
> To: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>; Tom Rini
> <trini at konsulko.com>; Eddie Cai <eddie.cai.linux at gmail.com>; Jagan Teki
> <jteki at openedev.com>; york sun <york.sun at nxp.com>; Robert P. J. Day
> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>; Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: global_data: change timebase_l/h to
> unsigned int
> 
> Hi Peng,
> 
> On 19 April 2017 at 19:10, Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com> wrote:
> > Change type of timebase_l/h to unsigned int.
> 
> What is the motivation for this, please?

From lib/time.c: ((uint64_t)gd->timebase_h << 32) | gd->timebase_l;

This piece code is based on that timebase_h and timebase_l are 32bits width, I think.
But unsigned long are 64bits width on ARM64. I am not sure, but I suppose same case
on other archs.

Thanks,
Peng.

> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > Cc: Eddie Cai <eddie.cai.linux at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com>
> > Cc: York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
> > Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> > Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> > Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Buildman shows the following build failure, but not related this patch.
> >  aarch64:  +   orangepi_pc2
> >  x86:  +   qemu-x86_64 qemu-x86_efi_payload64 chromebook_link64
> >
> >  include/asm-generic/global_data.h | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> Regards,
> Simon


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