On Thursday 04 August 2005 6:38 am, matthieu castet wrote:
> Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 3:16 pm, matthieu castet wrote:
> >>Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> > drivers/char/hpet.c
> >> > This probably should be converted to PNP. I'll
> >> > look into doing this.
> >>IIRC, I am not sure that the pnp layer was able to pass the 64 bits
> >>memory adress for hpet correctly. But it would be nice if it works.
> >
> > You're right, this was broken. But I've been pushing a PNPACPI
> > patch to fix this.
> >
> Yes but is ACPI_RSTYPE_ADDRESS64 possible on 32 bit machine ?
I can't think of a case where that would make sense, but I don't
actually know the answer.
> In this case your patch won't work as res->mem_resource[i].start and
> res->mem_resource[i].end are unsigned long, and 64 bit value won't fit.
True. But fixing that would be pretty far-reaching (changing struct
resource), so I'm not worried until it is shown to be a problem.
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