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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:43:42 +0100
From: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@...il.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <maxextreme@...il.com>
CC: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@...il.com>, akpm@...l.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1 full] drivers: add LCD support
Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>
> Sorry, I meant: You can't mmap a RAM address using functions like the
> usual remap_pfn_range (as such functions doesn't like physical RAM
> addresses, they want I/O ports for example, like 0x378). So, you can't
> use smem_start. You need to code your own mmap & nopage function. (It
> is explained in LDD3 very well).
>
well I must admit that I don't understand why... I suppose you refered
to that section in ldd3:
An interesting limitation of remap_pfn_range is that it gives
access only to reserved pages and physical addresses above the
top of physical memory.
I take a quick look at the implementation of remap_pfn_range() and
there's no such limitation I can see (fortunately).
Franck
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