From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 1/3] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:13:44 +0200
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> Care to add a line of documentation if you keep it in mm/memory.c?

It would be better to just use early_ioremap() (or ioremap())

That is how ACPI who has similar issues accessing its tables solves this.

-Andi
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