linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 1/3] i386/x86

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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:13:44 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 1/3] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data


> Care to add a line of documentation if you keep it in mm/memory.c?

It would be better to just use early_ioremap() (or ioremap())

That is how ACPI who has similar issues accessing its tables solves this.

-Andi
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