[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] ppc: Increase #address-cells for ppc64

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Sun Nov 28 00:46:42 CET 2010


On 2010-11-27 6:36 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>
> In theory, my-#acells claims to support a maximum of 4 cells. We don't use 
> it though, and 128 bits would need special #ifdef handling for systems that 
> don't have a native int128_t.

The case where we use 4 address cells (SCSI-3 variants) are for non-mappable 
buses, where we don't use the address for anything except the unit address. 
E.g., FC/AL with 64-bit WWN and 64-bit LUN.




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