On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:19:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Russell King wrote:
> > Talking around this issue, is there any chance of getting the
> > official use of the first parameter to ioremap documented in
> > Documentation/IO-mapping.txt please? There appears to be
> > confusion as to whether it is:
> >
> > a) PCI bus address
> > b) CPU untranslated address
>
> It's neither.
>
> It's a cookie that you can do arithmetic off and pass on to the
> readx/writex, and nothing more. You cannot make any assumptions at all
> about what it means.
>
> In particular, you can _not_ assume that it is a PCI bus address ("WHICH
> bus?") and you can absolutely not assume that it is a CPU address (many
> CPU's do not "memory map" PCI at all).
In which case, can we change the following in IO-mapping.txt please?
/*
* remap framebuffer PCI memory area at 0xFC000000,
* size 1MB, so that we can access it: We can directly
* access only the 640k-1MB area, so anything else
* has to be remapped.
*/
char * baseptr = ioremap(0xFC000000, 1024*1024);
since its not true? (since 0xfc000000 is a cookie).
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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