Re: [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:37:13AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I think we should take system ram out of the iomem file, at least.

Rubbish.  iomem is a representation of the physical addresses in the
system as seen from the CPU's perspective.  As I said in my previous
mail in this thread, if you attempt to map a device's BAR over the top
of physical RAM, things will go poorly for you.

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