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Message-ID: <1a297b360707101502t2670f0d7g5197b9c32ecb967c@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:02:23 +0400
From: "Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@...il.com>
To: "vraghavan3@...l.gatech.edu" <vraghavan3@...l.gatech.edu>
Cc: "Nobin Mathew" <nobin.mathew@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reading a physical memory location
On 7/10/07, vraghavan3@...l.gatech.edu <vraghavan3@...l.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. But I was wondering as to why I would have to map
> the physical address to the virtual address when I know that the string is
> permanently in the physical memory because its loaded into flash. Is there a way
> to directly read from the physical memory location? Also, do the functions
> ioremap() and readl(va) work when called from within a kernel module?
>
Of course, if you look at almost any of the memory mapped device
drivers, you will find that ioremap/readl/writel is the backbone of
your infrastructure.
Manu
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