Hi, On 1 November 2011 22:05, Jeremy Huddleston <jerem...@apple.com> wrote: > While this does fix the build failure, I'd much rather change memType to be a > uintptr_t everywhere, but it was explicitly set to uint64_t for 32bit powerpc > by Ian in the commit referenced below. Ian, can you explain why you set > memType to 64bits even though void * is only 32bits? You referenced ppc32 > code running on ppc64, but I don't see why that would be problematic.
I'm pretty sure this was because 64-bit POWER machines were really fond of mapping their PCI address space above the 32-bit range, so if you truncated your addresses to 32-bit, you'd lose out. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
