Hi all,

On  24 Jun, this message from Martin Costabel echoed through cyberspace:

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After investigating this, it turns out that early in the boot process,
before the mm system is up, ioremap returns virt == phys for
addresses >= ioremap_base. ioremap_base got changed from 0xf8000000 to
0xf0000000 in recent kernels. Anybody kow why this got changed?

Browsing bk diffs (BTW, it's rather the other way round),

Oooppss.. of course.

this looks
very much like a typo. Paulus, on 06/09/2000, cleaning up too
thoroughly?

Might be...

But on the other hand, what's the reason for having the ioremap_base
limit other than for the sake of mapping 1:1 above it?

If the reason is to map 1:1, no luck... there's hardly anything besides
ROM above 0xf8000000 on PowerMacs. In that case, and supposing it was
moved to make more room below it, it can be moved to 0xffffffff anyway..

Thanks

Michel

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