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From: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, "Jun Sun" <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: <jim@jtan.com>, <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: ISA
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:05:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <056a01c18831$919daf90$5601010a@prefect> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.3.96.1011219023325.16267B-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
To: "Jun Sun" <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: <jim@jtan.com>; <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: ISA


> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Jun Sun wrote:
> > Now when people using ioremap/readb/writeb method to access ISA memory
space,
> > which lives in the lower range of the "bus memory space", it will
collide with
> > system ram under 1:1 mapping assumption.
>
>  Hmm, I believe there should be no such problem.  For systems equipped
> with the PCI bus we may just assume the low 16MB of PCI memory address
> space is reserved for ISA memory addresses (it's hardwired for many
> platforms, so there should be no problem with it), i.e. avoid programming
> BARs to point to that space and make ioremap() (or __ioremap(), actually)
> act accordingly, i.e. assume a 1:1 mapping for addresses above 16MB and
> perform an ISA mapping for ones below 16MB.

That sounds like the simplest and best solution.

Regards,
Brad

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From: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: jim@jtan.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: ISA
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:05:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <056a01c18831$919daf90$5601010a@prefect> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011219020501.FTcLKyT1gmQ0NMl8xe14L0EtJ3EJTgpCUCLe6fHXZ30@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.3.96.1011219023325.16267B-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
To: "Jun Sun" <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: <jim@jtan.com>; <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: ISA


> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Jun Sun wrote:
> > Now when people using ioremap/readb/writeb method to access ISA memory
space,
> > which lives in the lower range of the "bus memory space", it will
collide with
> > system ram under 1:1 mapping assumption.
>
>  Hmm, I believe there should be no such problem.  For systems equipped
> with the PCI bus we may just assume the low 16MB of PCI memory address
> space is reserved for ISA memory addresses (it's hardwired for many
> platforms, so there should be no problem with it), i.e. avoid programming
> BARs to point to that space and make ioremap() (or __ioremap(), actually)
> act accordingly, i.e. assume a 1:1 mapping for addresses above 16MB and
> perform an ISA mapping for ones below 16MB.

That sounds like the simplest and best solution.

Regards,
Brad

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-19  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-18 20:04 ISA Jim Paris
2001-12-18 20:27 ` ISA Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-18 20:27   ` ISA Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-18 21:44   ` ISA Jim Paris
2001-12-18 22:01     ` ISA Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-12-18 22:24       ` ISA Jim Paris
2001-12-19  1:17         ` ISA Jun Sun
2001-12-19  1:50           ` ISA Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-12-19  2:05             ` Bradley D. LaRonde [this message]
2001-12-19  2:05               ` ISA Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-19  2:09             ` ISA Jun Sun
2001-12-19  2:30               ` ISA Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-12-19  9:52                 ` ISA Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-19 13:59                   ` ISA Alan Cox
2001-12-19 13:59                     ` ISA Alan Cox
2001-12-19 14:06                     ` ISA Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-20 13:09                       ` ISA Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-12-20 13:14                         ` ISA Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-20 13:39                           ` ISA Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-12-20 13:45                             ` ISA Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-20 14:06                               ` ISA Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-12-21 16:12                       ` ISA Alan Cox
2001-12-21 16:12                         ` ISA Alan Cox
2001-12-21 18:44                         ` ISA Jim Paris
2002-01-01 19:22                           ` ISA Jun Sun
2002-01-01 19:34                             ` ISA Bradley D. LaRonde
2002-01-02  1:03                               ` ISA M. Warner Losh
2002-01-02  9:41                               ` ISA Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-01-02 14:36                                 ` ISA Bradley D. LaRonde
2002-01-01 20:13                             ` ISA Alan Cox
2002-01-01 20:13                               ` ISA Alan Cox
2001-12-19  1:28         ` ISA Maciej W. Rozycki

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