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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/19] powerpc: allow ioremap within reserved fake
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On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 16:35 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 18:09 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
> >> I could use ppc_md.ioremap to duplicate ioremap except for the ioremap
> >> ram check.
> >> But calling the stock ioremap without modifying it is not possible
> >> because it checks and bails out when ioremapping a region marked as
> >> ram (even if it's not real ram and it's memreserved).
> >>
> >> Is the list of memreserved areas preserved once the kernel is running?
> >> If it is preserved another option would be to unban ioremapping ram if
> >> memreserved.
> > 
> > Yes, check lmb's they should still be around.
> > 
> 
> Good.
> So adding a kconfig option to allow ioremapping memreserved memory marked
> as ram and adding a proper check (under that kconfig) to unban this case
> in ioremap would be an acceptable solution?

Don't even make it Kconfig. Stick it under you GAMECUBE_COMMON for now
or CONFIG_WII or whatever. This is temporary until we sort out the whole
disctontig mem issue.

Cheers,
Ben.

> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> Thanks,
> Albert