[OpenBIOS] [RFC 2/3] ppc64: Switch to 64-bit cell size

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat May 28 17:57:46 CEST 2011


> Oh, too quick in replying :). You're changing the "cell" type which is 
> used all over the place with sizeof() to figure out the cell size of 
> guest visible (device tree) fields. I don't see how it could not be 
> guest exposed.

Fix those bugs then.  Those fields in the device tree are four bytes
per integer, #address-cells etc. integers per item.  The device tree
does not expose the cell size of the underlying system anywhere.


Segher




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