Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] fsldma: add support to 36-bit physical address | From | Kumar Gala <> | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:43:12 -0600 |
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On Nov 15, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > >> The programming model (if you look at the free-space in the registers and data structures) supports a 64-bit address. I'm trying to avoid changing the driver in the future if we have >36-bit. However this is such a minor worry that I'll stop and just ack the patch as is. > > I must still be missing something. I'm looking at the description of > the SATR register in the MPC8572 RM, and it shows this: > > 0 - 3 | 4 - 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 - 11 | 12 - 15 | 16-21 | 22-31 > --- | STFLOWLVL | SPCIORDER | SSME | STRANSINT | SREADTTYPE | --- | ESAD > > The most that we can extend ESAD to is 16 bits, for a total of a > 48-bit physical address. Where are the other 16 bits supposed to go?
I was looking at the link addresses. I stand corrected so our max is 48-bits.
- k
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