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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@arm.com>
Cc: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>,
	nd@arm.com,  Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ArmPkg: Fix the GIC base address variables as 64-bit
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:40:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu87rwk=1ZhrB0p6MJJH1h8mJqaWAjgYySVTTAeq0eNE3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161018025013.GA19504@arm.com>

On 18 October 2016 at 03:50, Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@arm.com> wrote:
> Hello Ard,
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 06:09:00PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 17 October 2016 at 09:54, Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@arm.com> wrote:
>> > Since ACPI spec defines the GIC base addresses (CPU interface,
>> > Distributor and Redistributor*GICv3 only*) as 64-bit, so we should
>> > define these corresponding base address variables as 64-bit instead of
>> > 32-bit. This patch redefines them according to the ACPI spec.
>> >
>> > Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
>> > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>> > Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@arm.com>
>>
>> After a closer look, I noticed the following:
>>
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicDistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  UINTN         GicDistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicDistributorBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicDistributorBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicDistributorBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicDistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  UINTN
>> GicInterruptInterfaceBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  UINTN
>> GicInterruptInterfaceBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN
>> GicInterruptInterfaceBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN UINTN
>> GicDistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN UINTN
>> GicRedistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN UINTN
>> GicDistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN UINTN
>> GicRedistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN UINTN
>> GicDistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN UINTN
>> GicRedistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicDistributorBase,
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  INTN          GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN  UINTN
>> GicInterruptInterfaceBase
>> ArmPkg/Include/Library/ArmGicLib.h:  IN UINTN
>> GicInterruptInterfaceBase,
>>
>> so I think we need to clean up the use of these values more widely
>> than we have done up till now
>>
> I am not very sure if we still need to support UEFI on 32-bit ARM platform, as Leif mentioned
> if we use INTN or UINTN that will be more generic to embrace both 32 &64-bit platform, at least
> in form of. Currently we are only focused on 64-bit platform, let's wait for Leif's comment then
> I can re-work my patch to adapt it after we have reached a wider agreement.
>

Hi Dennis,

My primary concern is the sloppiness regarding INTN/UINTN, so it seem
a major cleanup is due. I'd prefer using UINT64 everywhere: we can
still assert that an UINT64 *value* does not exceed MAX_UINTN if we
want to

-- 
Ard.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-18  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-17  8:54 [PATCH] ArmPkg: Fix the GIC base address variables as 64-bit Dennis Chen
2016-10-17 17:09 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-18  2:50   ` Dennis Chen
2016-10-18  8:40     ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2016-10-18  9:26       ` Dennis Chen

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