[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] RFC: Increase dictionary size on SPARC64

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 14 05:19:34 CEST 2010


> Unfortunately, it does matter. FCode still expects to run in 32-bit mode
> and use 32-bit pointers, so the 64-bit address space doesn't buy us
> anything.

FCode uses 64-bit pointers on a 64-bit OF.  The only thing that's
always 32-bit in FCode are the literals (and of course many badly-written
FCode drivers do not work properly on 64-bit OF).


Segher




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