Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:20:37 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: rtc-ds1742.c should use resource_size_t for base address
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:54:27 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> Currently the rtc driver, rtc-ds1742.c uses an unsigned long to store
> the base mmio address of the NVRAM/RTC.  This breaks on systems like
> PowerPC 440, which is a 32-bit core with 36-bit physical addresses: IO
> on the system, including the RTC, is typically above the 4GB point,
> and cannot fit into an unsigned long.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by replacing the unsigned long with a
> resource_size_t.  Tested on Ebony (PPC440) (with additional patches to
> instantiate the ds1742 platform device appropriately).

Where would those additional patches be? :)

josh
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