[OpenBIOS] OFMEM and physical addresses

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Andreas Färber wrote:

> I was planning to do the same thing for ppc64, please go ahead.
> 
> The alternative would've been to create separate range structs - cleaner 
> API-wise, but then the range logic would need to be duplicated, which I 
> consider a big con. ;)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I know that the old SPARC64 code used 
to reference addresses in the translation_t struct linked list directly 
in the MMU miss handlers, but that section has now been replaced with C 
code. Are there any similar gotchas on PPC?

I'm also thinking it would be nice to have a couple of functions for 
each arch such as POP_PHYS() and PUSH_PHYS() which will PUSH/POP stack 
items into phys_addr_t and vice-versa. I think this will also allow a 
nice tidy up of the areas where these conversions take place, e.g. the 
MMU handlers.

Looks like I'm busy for the rest of the day, so will try and have a stab 
at this tomorrow.


ATB,

Mark.

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