Re: Accessing MMIO PCI space - crossplatform

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
13 Nov 1998 10:54:28 +0100


>>>>> "Jakub" == Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

Jakub> On SPARC64 particularly, ioremap is a nop, as all RAM and all
Jakub> I/O memory is mapped all the time at PAGE_OFFSET+PA, in case of
Jakub> I/O memory non-cacheable with side-effects. So don't care
Jakub> about sparc64 very much in decisions about ioremap (and about
Jakub> sparc32 neither, as I guess you cannot have a matroxfb in a
Jakub> JavaStation).

On the m68k we don't use ioremap() but rather something called
kernel_map() which has a much more flexible interface.

Jes

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