Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/11] powerpc: gamecube/wii: early debugging using usbgecko
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2009-11-29 23:18:22
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2009-11-29 23:18:22
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 21:43 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
+ * Prepare again the same BAT for MMU_init. + * This allows udbg I/O to continue working after the MMU is + * turned on for real. + * + * We are assuming here that exi_io_base is identity mapped. + */ + addr = ((unsigned long)exi_io_base) & 0xffff0000; + setbat(1, addr, addr, 128*1024, PAGE_KERNEL_NCG);
How do you prevent that from overlapping otherwise valid kernel mappings ? You need to allocate the virtual space. For a debug thing like that, you could use the fixmap. In fact, I think we should create a fixmap entry or two always available for use by early debug. Cheers, Ben.