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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] fix PAL call in physical mode.

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To:	Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] fix PAL call in physical mode.
From:	Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:38:59 +1000
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:25:47PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:57:53PM +1000, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:39:07PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > > [IA64] fix PAL call in physical mode.
> > > 
> > > Now firmware code is mapped at its own virtual address space
> > > which is same to Linux. So the calculation from virutal 
> > > address to physical address should be same to the linux one.
> > > In practice firmware is located in low physical address area
> > > so that masking 60 bit instead of 61 bits doesn't make difference.
> > 
> > Can't we just get rid of #ifdef XEN ?
> > And possibly even move pal.S back into xen/arc/ia64/linux/ ?
> > 
> > I just checked and with the patch below,
> > xen/arch/ia64/linux-xen/pal.S becomes the same as
> > arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S from linux 2.6.21.
> 
> Great. Moving back pal.S sounds a good idea.
> 
> [IA64] move back pal.S into xen/arch/ia64/linux.
> 
> Now xen/arch/ia64/linux-xen/pal.S is the same as
> arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S from linux 2.6.21.
> So move it back into xen/arch/ia64/linux.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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