Re: [RFC 6/8] x86_64: Define the macros and tables for the basic UV infrastructure.

From: Jack Steiner
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 23:03:47 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:09:30PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:11:11AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Not sure what physical mode is.
> >
> > > +#ifdef __BIOS__
> > > +#define UV_ADDR(x) ((unsigned long *)(x))
> > > +#else
> > > +#define UV_ADDR(x) ((unsigned long *)__va(x))
> > > +#endif
> >
> > But it it would be cleaner if your BIOS just supplied a suitable __va()
> > and then you remove these macros.
>
> the bios should just have headers of it's own instead of placing this
> burden on kernel code.

See mail from earlier today. The UV_ADDR macro has been eliminated.


--- jack
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