Re: [PATCH v2 13/31] arm64: Device specific operations

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Sep 14 2012 - 13:32:01 EST


On Friday 14 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> (revisiting unanswered emails :))
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:33:55AM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:52:14PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * I/O port access primitives.
> > > + */
> > > +#define IO_SPACE_LIMIT 0xffff
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * We currently don't have any platform with PCI support, so just leave this
> > > + * defined to 0 until needed.
> > > + */
> > > +#define PCI_IOBASE ((void __iomem *)0)
> >
> > You could just leave out the PCI / I/O code alltogether instead.
>
> I would leave this in as some of the first platforms to appear will have
> PCIe. At some point we'll add a fixed address where the PCI_IOBASE is
> mapped.
>

I guess the cleanest way would be to reserve a virtual memory region right away
and document it in the file where you describe the memory layout. Then you can
fill the value in here.

Arnd
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