ioremap() on ISA memory space
Geert Uytterhoeven
Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wed Jun 9 17:41:54 EST 1999
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > I found one reason why current kernels don't work on my LongTrail: my NVRAM is
> > in ISA memory space. When the kernel tries to ioremap() it in
> > pmac_nvram_init(), I get
> >
> > __ioremap(): phys addr e0000 is RAM lr c000e43c
> >
> > and ioremap() returns NULL, causing all later accesses to NVRAM (e.g. in atyfb)
> > to fail due to NULL pointer dereferences.
> >
> > Do all CHRP boxes have NVRAM in ISA memory space? The comment (by Corey) near
> > the call to pmac_nvram_init() in chrp_init2() already wonders whether
> > pmac_nvram_init() should be called or not.
>
> I don't know, but according to M.Mares (the PCI guy), all addresses passed
> to ioremap should be processor physical addresses. So you should modify
> the call to ioremap to add the physical offset at which the ISA memory
> space (address 0-16 Mb) appears on the PCI bus.
Oops, you're right (in my case that's an offset of 0xf7000000). Hence we have
to `fix up' the OF device tree first...
Greetings,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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