I looked at the IO-mapping.txt file. It says that
on x86 architecture it should not make any difference.
It also says that "on x86 it _is_ the same memory space. So
on x86 it actually works to just dereference a pointer".
Any inputs on this ?
Thanks and regards,
-hiren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:53 PM
> To: MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
> Cc: 'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'
> Subject: Re: accessing on-card ram/rom
>
>
> "MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)" wrote:
> > I have a PCI card which has on-card ram/rom which gets mapped
> > into pci address space and there is a separate base register
> > for this memory. Now the question is : can I access this on-card
> > memory by converting the pci base address into the virtual address
> > using bus_to_virt and adding the required offset ? Or do I need
> > to use ioremap function to map the physical address space starting
> > from the pci base address into the kernel virtual address space ?
> > Or is there any other interface to access the on-card memory ?
> > Is it that bus_to_virt can be used only for the normal RAM ?
>
> Use ioremap.
>
> For more details, read linux/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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