Re: [flashrom] [PATCH 05/10] Use uintptr_t for chipaddr instead of unsigned long.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Am 14.07.2013 01:32 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:07:22 +0200
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  wrote:
> > This looks too good to be viable. I have a bad feeling about this in the
> > context of 64-bit resources on x86 (32bit), but drivers accessing
> > resources shouldn't be using chipaddr anyway.. That said, it should not
> > result in any breakage on 32bit platforms. We may see pretty explosions
> > once we start supporting the x32 pseudo-arch. But that will need an
> > audit of the codebase anyway.
>
> What kind of 64b resources are you thinking about here?

64-bit PCI memory BARs. Those can exist on x86_64 systems running x86
flashrom. But AFAICS that PCI code is not affected by this change.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel