linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] generic early

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:26:32 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"patches@...aro.org" <patches@...aro.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] generic early_ioremap support

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:35:15AM +0000, Mark Salter wrote:
> This patch series takes the common bits from the x86 early ioremap
> implementation and creates a generic implementation which may be used
> by other architectures. The early ioremap interfaces are intended for
> situations where boot code needs to make temporary virtual mappings
> before the normal ioremap interfaces are available. Typically, this
> means before paging_init() has run.
> 
> These patches are layered on top of generic fixmap patches which
> were discussed here (and are in the akpm tree):
> 
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/25/474
> 
> This is version 2 of the patch series. These patches (and underlying
> fixmap patches) may be found at:
> 
>   git://github.com/mosalter/linux.git (early-ioremap-v2 branch)

The patches look fine to me. I haven't acked the arm64 patches as I'll
eventually merge/sign them off once the first patch in the series goes
in.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin
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