Re: [CFT][PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1 remove x86 boot page tables

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 00:45:55 EST


"Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > I have rewritten and compiled tested the boot_ioremap code but I don't
> > have a configuration to test it. This effects the EFI code and the
> > numa srat code. It might be worth replacing boot_ioremap with __va()
> > to reduce the amount of error checking necessary.
>
> I just blindly applied this patch and tried it on an x86 EFI system
> with no luck. It's not mapping correctly for some reason. I'll look
> at the problem closer in a bit.

Thanks I'd appreciate it. There is the earlyprintk fix patch I posted
earlier that might help.

You say it is not mapping correctly? What do you mean? Is it
a bug in boot_ioremap or something else. Or do you know yet?

Thanks,

Eric
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