Re: [PATCH v2] fsldma: add support to 36-bit physical address

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 15, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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