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Message-Id: <200705311045.36411.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:45:35 -0600
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, "Russell King" <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250
On Thursday 31 May 2007 10:32:42 am Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 5/31/07, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 10:48:59 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > You could require that the architecture implement some specific function
> > > for mapping the early-uart.
> >
> > We could, but we already have bt_ioremap, dmi_ioremap, and early_ioremap.
> > Do we really want to proliferate more flavors of "early ioremap"? I'd
> > rather consolidate the ones we already have.
> >
> not really.
I'm sorry, I don't understand the point you're making.
Andrew's proposal was that we could add early_uart_ioremap to the list of
bt_ioremap and dmi_ioremap.
I'm suggesting that maybe we should make bt_ioremap smart enough that
we could use it for early uart mapping. And maybe we could get rid
of dmi_ioremap, and make DMI use bt_ioremap as well (this would require
some shims for x86_64 and ia64).
> dhcp-umpk12-63-201:/home/yhlu/xx/xx/kernel/linux-2.6/include # grep
> bt_ioremap * -r
> asm-i386/dmi.h:#define dmi_ioremap bt_ioremap
> asm-i386/io.h: * bt_ioremap() and bt_iounmap() are for temporary early boot-time
> asm-i386/io.h:extern void *bt_ioremap(unsigned long offset, unsigned long size);
> asm-i386/io.h:#define dmi_ioremap bt_ioremap
>
> dhcp-umpk12-63-201:/home/yhlu/xx/xx/kernel/linux-2.6/include # grep
> early_ioremap * -r
> asm-x86_64/dmi.h:#define dmi_ioremap early_ioremap
> asm-x86_64/io.h:extern void *early_ioremap(unsigned long addr,
> unsigned long size);
>
> dhcp-umpk12-63-201:/home/yhlu/xx/xx/kernel/linux-2.6/include # grep
> dmi_ioremap * -r
> asm-i386/dmi.h:#define dmi_ioremap bt_ioremap
> asm-i386/io.h:#define dmi_ioremap bt_ioremap
> asm-ia64/io.h:#define dmi_ioremap ioremap
> asm-x86_64/dmi.h:extern void *dmi_ioremap(unsigned long addr, unsigned
> long size);
> asm-x86_64/dmi.h:#define dmi_ioremap early_ioremap
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