Hrm...
Were you actually using 64-bit addresses on the PCI bus?
My guess is that with some creative address mappings, this could be
done. The PCI bus itself would use only 32-bit address, but the CPU
would use a base address offset into the >4G range.
Yeah, I could see how that could get ugly...
Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
> [mailto:owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com]On Behalf Of Jason Gunthorpe
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 4:00 PM
> To: Matthew Dharm
> Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
> Subject: RE: MIPS64 status?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Matthew Dharm wrote:
>
> > Does this mean we could map PCI memory/IO addresses above
> 4G and have
> > it work?
>
> Ooh, don't go there :> We looked at that and actually did
> it then backed
> it out.
>
> The PCI spec (particuarly PCI-X) tries to make it possible, but in a
> general system with PCI sockets/etc it is just is not feasible. PCI
> bridges need to be located below 4G, as do the majority of
> devices made.
> There is also a performance hit for having device registers > 4G.
>
> You'd definately need the mips64 kernel to do that, or use
> ugly wired TLB
> entries with normal mips.
>
> Jason
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