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Date:      Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:31:36 -0500
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        "Jayachandran C." <jchandra@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] FDT fix for 64 bit platforms
Message-ID:  <4E989C28.3030606@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2B7sy7AhU7WLuabx6HCtUgvEtUHWBmGe-eP=N8L9VknM65r-mg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/14/11 14:10, Jayachandran C. wrote:
> I'm planning commit this -CURRENT if there an no objections.
>
> In the current implementation, phandle is used to store a pointer to
> the location inside the device tree.  Since phandle_t is u32, this
> will not work on 64 bit platforms. With this fix, the phandle is the
> offset from the start of device tree pointer 'fdtp', which will be 32
> bit.
>
> Review or testing from device tree users will be welcome.
>
> JC.

Why not use offsets into the FDT rather than full pointers? I believe 
having phandles greater than 32 bits violates the FDT spec, and 
declaring that the FDT can't itself be larger than 4 GB seems reasonable.
-Nathan



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