[OpenBIOS] [PATCH v3 3/5] Pretty-print reg property

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Mon Nov 8 22:53:42 CET 2010


On 2010-11-6 1:46 PM, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> On 2010-11-6 6:43 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> [...]
>> Hm. It's right for reg, with is one cell (0) only.
>> But it logically doesn't fit the MMU's available property. So it's telling 
>> me we need to special-case that somehow for 5/5. Which in turn means that 
>> we'll need to pass the #address-cells and #size-cells via stack in 3/5 to 
>> cover this use case.
>>
>> "The property values are as defined for the standard “reg” format, with 
>> single-cell virtual
>> addresses. The regions of virtual address space denote the virtual address 
>> space that is currently
>> unallocated by the Open Firmware and is available for use by client 
>> programs." (IEEE 1275 3.6.5)
>
> Hmm. It's "recommended", and I believe that is incorrect for SPARC 64. I'll 
> check on monday - I remember recently seeing that the /virtual-memory 
> available property used two-cell virtual addresses. I'll check what it does 
> with MMUs.
>
>
Duhh... Sun systems haven't had an MMU node for a _long_ time. I think the SS5 
had one, but I literally can't find a Sun old enough to have such a node. 
Never mind...




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