Re: [OpenBIOS] [PATCH 3/5] Alter ofmem_malloc_align() so that the resulting pointer is aligned for both physical and virtual addresses.

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Andreas Färber wrote:
> --verbose please! What is this supposed to do? Seems like a duplicate of 
> ofmem.c:ea_to_phys() but different?
>
> Andreas

It's used to convert between physical/virtual addresses. For alignment 
purposes, we need to ensure that memory allocated to a specific 
alignment is aligned both physically and virtually and since I couldn't 
see these functions in the PPC io.h file I just added them.

From what you're saying it sounds like the proper fix would be to 
rename the PPC functions ea_to_phys() (and also it's reverse mapping 
function) to match the SPARC definitions so they can be called from 
OFMEM. Does that sound reasonable?

ATB,

Mark.