Re: physical to virtual address

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:47:33 -0400


Andreas Bombe wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Jose Miguel Pereira Tavares wrote:
> > How can I translate a physical address to a virtual address?
> > I have allready look to io.h phys_to_virt, but I'm not sure that is
> > doing the right thing - a guess it's just for io address (bellow 1Mb I
> > believe).
>
> phys_to_virt is the right thing.

No, you most likely want to use ioremap. Just doing phys_to_virt
usually isn't enough.

Jeff

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