Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Paul, what does actually use this higher addresses?
> 
> We have drivers for on-chip peripherals that work from a struct
> ocp_device and call ioremap on the ocp_dev->paddr value, which is a
> phys_addr_t (although some of them use __ioremap instead).  These
> drivers are used on 405-based systems (with 32-bit phys_addr_t) as
> well as on 440-based systems.
> 
> These drivers are in the linuxppc-2.{4,5} trees but most of them
> haven't made it into the official trees yet.  They could all be
> audited and converted to use __ioremap, although it seems a bit
> arbitrary to say that you can't use ioremap in a an ocp driver if
> you're going to use it on a 440.  I wouldn't expect it to be

`ioremap is meant for PCI memory space only'

Oops...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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