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Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 11:16:30 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v7 1/7] fbdev/hitfb: Cast I/O offset to address
From: Thomas Zimmermann
> Sent: 12 May 2023 11:25
>
> Cast I/O offsets to pointers to use them with I/O functions. The I/O
> functions expect pointers of type 'volatile void __iomem *', but the
> offsets are plain integers. Build warnings are
>
> ../drivers/video/fbdev/hitfb.c: In function 'hitfb_accel_wait':
> ../arch/x86/include/asm/hd64461.h:18:33: warning: passing argument 1 of 'fb_readw' makes pointer
> from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
> 18 | #define HD64461_IO_OFFSET(x) (HD64461_IOBASE + (x))
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...
> 52 | static inline u16 fb_readw(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
>
> This patch only fixes the build warnings. It's not clear if the I/O
> offsets can legally be passed to the I/O helpers. It was apparently
> broken in 2007 when custom inw()/outw() helpers got removed by
> commit 34a780a0afeb ("sh: hp6xx pata_platform support."). Fixing the
> driver would require setting the I/O base address.
Did you try changing the definition of HD64461_IOBASE to include
a (volatile void __iomem *) cast?
A lot less churn...
I'm guessing that 'sh' deosn't have in/out instructions so this
is something that is always mapped at a fixed kernel virtual address?
David
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