Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758780AbXEaStQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 14:49:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755111AbXEaStF (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 14:49:05 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.228]:26928 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753670AbXEaStD (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 14:49:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WlumsF4dGJb2rRuDKJmQ0ETANNJFGBKSBP8rmIKK7KJxXDTUZBX/U7u6R6OEuSNcZDnf/4C3yn1F2QO4ns8nEBo5Hdu6kYZJy7uWyqvIJ9dzC/M4yhxy9qE4CU6+Ba0OsYJLcLhjlVly4GxuyVoYrnm1huI29TcNSPyV3KWLebc= Message-ID: <86802c440705311149y727e734ftc17c05e13ace74c9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:49:01 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Bjorn Helgaas" Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250 Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Andi Kleen" , "Russell King" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <200705311045.36411.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705291844.00308.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <200705310917.19205.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <86802c440705310932x3c85d9eao109fcf6445bd5938@mail.gmail.com> <200705311045.36411.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 24 On 5/31/07, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > not really. > > I'm sorry, I don't understand the point you're making. > > Andrew's proposal was that we could add early_uart_ioremap to the list of > bt_ioremap and dmi_ioremap. > for i386, bt_ioremap is using fixmap, and it is temporary boot-time mappings, used before ioremap() is functional. but we need one as permanent fixed address. for x86_64, early_ioremap. I'd like to make to static, because dmi_ioremap could use ioremap instead. Fix address could make the earlycon can be used more earlier. YH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/