netdev - Re: [PATCH] tg3: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms

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Message-Id: <20080412.183120.265079925.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:31:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sshtylyov@...mvista.com
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms

From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:01:22 +0400

> The driver stores the PCI resource addresses into 'unsigned long' variable
> before calling ioremap_nocache() on them. This warrants kernel oops when the
> registers are accessed on PPC 44x platforms which (being 32-bit) have PCI
> memory space mapped beyond 4 GB.
> 
> The arch/ppc/ kernel has a fixup in ioremap() that creates an illusion that
> the PCI memory resource is mapped below 4 GB, but arch/powerpc/ code got rid
> of this trick, having instead CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>

Applied, thanks.

I added a bump of the driver version and release date for
the changeset.
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