From 0d304c18e2cf1451a45c69aac61198d896da1e4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:04:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] comment and unify lb_uint64 handling as discussed on the
 mailinglist

git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2086 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
---
 src/arch/i386/boot/linuxbios_table.c | 16 ------------
 src/arch/ppc/boot/linuxbios_table.c  | 16 ------------
 src/include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h  | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 util/lbtdump/lbtdump.c               |  8 ------
 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/arch/i386/boot/linuxbios_table.c b/src/arch/i386/boot/linuxbios_table.c
index 414addff49..10d3b0ce9d 100644
--- a/src/arch/i386/boot/linuxbios_table.c
+++ b/src/arch/i386/boot/linuxbios_table.c
@@ -7,22 +7,6 @@
 #include <device/device.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
-static inline uint64_t unpack_lb64(struct lb_uint64 value) 
-{
-	uint64_t result;
-	result = value.hi;
-	result = (result << 32) + value.lo;
-	return result;
-}
-
-static inline struct lb_uint64 pack_lb64(uint64_t value)
-{
-	struct lb_uint64 result;
-	result.lo = (value >> 0) & 0xffffffff;
-	result.hi = (value >> 32) & 0xffffffff;
-	return result;
-}
-
 struct lb_header *lb_table_init(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	struct lb_header *header;
diff --git a/src/arch/ppc/boot/linuxbios_table.c b/src/arch/ppc/boot/linuxbios_table.c
index 414addff49..10d3b0ce9d 100644
--- a/src/arch/ppc/boot/linuxbios_table.c
+++ b/src/arch/ppc/boot/linuxbios_table.c
@@ -7,22 +7,6 @@
 #include <device/device.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
-static inline uint64_t unpack_lb64(struct lb_uint64 value) 
-{
-	uint64_t result;
-	result = value.hi;
-	result = (result << 32) + value.lo;
-	return result;
-}
-
-static inline struct lb_uint64 pack_lb64(uint64_t value)
-{
-	struct lb_uint64 result;
-	result.lo = (value >> 0) & 0xffffffff;
-	result.hi = (value >> 32) & 0xffffffff;
-	return result;
-}
-
 struct lb_header *lb_table_init(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	struct lb_header *header;
diff --git a/src/include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h b/src/include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h
index 9288d3b23c..527c44d5fc 100644
--- a/src/include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h
+++ b/src/include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h
@@ -31,6 +31,40 @@
  * table entries and be backwards compatible, but it is not required.
  */
 
+/* Since LinuxBIOS is usually compiled 32bit, gcc will align 64bit 
+ * types to 32bit boundaries. If the LinuxBIOS table is dumped on a 
+ * 64bit system, a uint64_t would be aligned to 64bit boundaries, 
+ * breaking the table format.
+ *
+ * lb_uint64 will keep 64bit LinuxBIOS table values aligned to 32bit
+ * to ensure compatibility. They can be accessed with the two functions
+ * below: unpack_lb64() and pack_lb64()
+ *
+ * See also: util/lbtdump/lbtdump.c
+ */
+
+struct lb_uint64 {
+	uint32_t lo;
+	uint32_t hi;
+};
+
+static inline uint64_t unpack_lb64(struct lb_uint64 value)
+{
+        uint64_t result;
+        result = value.hi;
+        result = (result << 32) + value.lo;
+        return result;
+}
+
+static inline struct lb_uint64 pack_lb64(uint64_t value)
+{
+        struct lb_uint64 result;
+        result.lo = (value >> 0) & 0xffffffff;
+        result.hi = (value >> 32) & 0xffffffff;
+        return result;
+}
+
+
 
 struct lb_header
 {
@@ -57,10 +91,6 @@ struct lb_record {
 
 #define LB_TAG_MEMORY	0x0001
 
-struct lb_uint64 {
-	uint32_t lo;
-	uint32_t hi;
-};
 struct lb_memory_range {
 	struct lb_uint64 start;
 	struct lb_uint64 size;
diff --git a/util/lbtdump/lbtdump.c b/util/lbtdump/lbtdump.c
index 4b5d9dfa65..e799e8d0c3 100644
--- a/util/lbtdump/lbtdump.c
+++ b/util/lbtdump/lbtdump.c
@@ -9,14 +9,6 @@
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include "../../src/include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h"
 
-static inline uint64_t unpack_lb64(struct lb_uint64 value)
-{
-	uint64_t result;
-	result = value.hi;
-	result = (result << 32) + value.lo;
-	return result;
-}
-
 void print_lb_records(struct lb_record *rec, struct lb_record *last, unsigned long addr);
 
 unsigned long compute_checksum(void *addr, unsigned long length)