Re: [PATCH][2.6][2/5]Support for HPET based timer

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 03:01, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:18:50PM -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> > 
> > > Fixmap is for HPET memory map address access. As the timer
> > > initialization happen 
> > > early in the boot sequence (before vm initialization), we need to have
> > > fixmap() 
> > > and fix_to_virt() to access HPET memory map address.
> > 
> > Ahh, yes, you're right. You can't use ioremap at that time. Actually I
> > did the same on x86_64 not only because of vsyscalls.
> 
> iirc i386 has an ioremap_early or somesuch.

Yep, we have boot_ioremap().  It's used to do ioremap() even while we're
still using the original early boot pagetables (before paging_init()):
arch/i386/mm/boot_ioremap.c

-- 
Dave Hansen
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