Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] powerpc: add ioremap_bat() function for setting up BAT translated IO regions.

From
Kumar Gala <hidden>
Date
2008-08-06 14:17:07
Reply to
Grant Likely, 2008-08-06
On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
From: Grant Likely <redacted>

ioremap_bat() is useful for things like mapping SoC internally memory mapped
register and early text because it allows mappings to devices to be setup
early in the boot process where they are needed, and the mappings persist
after the MMU is configured.

Without ioremap_bat(), setting up the MMU would cause the early text
mappings to get lost and mostly likely result in a kernel panic on the next
attempt at output.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <redacted>
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why can't we just do this in ioremap itself?

- k
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