Ebony bootloader
Matt Porter
porter at cox.net
Wed Jun 12 20:51:10 EST 2002
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:10:14PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Matt Porter writes:
>
> > Read Understanding Linux, Linux Device Drivers, and the
> > documentation in Documentation/ directory. ioremap64()
> > is a version of ioremap() for >32-bit physical address
> > systems (440, 745x).
>
> Incidentally, I don't think we should have ioremap64 or
> ioremap_native, instead ioremap should just take a phys_addr_t. It
> will have to do some handling of truncated addresses from pci drivers
It already does that work.
> but that should be manageable and the interface will be much more
> uniform if we use ioremap everywhere instead of using ioremap,
> ioremap64 and ioremap_native in different places.
Yes, I agree. At the beginning of this, I was thinking that a
different ioremap prototype was going to get us into to compiler
trouble.
Regards,
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Matt Porter
porter at cox.net
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