[PATCH 1/3 v3] ARM Realview PCIX map include file changes
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Fri Oct 7 08:26:33 EDT 2011
On Friday 07 October 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > However, after changing both __io() and pcibios_min_io as Arnd suggested the boot still hangs after " Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel."
>
> I haven't followed the patch series in detail but the __io() is also
> used by __io_address() in the RealView code and the former is just
> expected to do some type casting. By doing some arithmetic on the
> pointer, the static mappings for various peripherals (GIC etc.) are
> wrong.
>
> So if you convert __io() as per Arnd's suggestion, make sure that
> __io_address() is redefined, something like below:
>
> #define __io_address(n) __typesafe_io(IO_ADDRESS(n))
Ah, right. That definitely explains why it would not boot.
> Alternatively we could leave __io() as in the original kernel and
> define RealView specific in*/out* macros.
I wouldn't recommend that, since that would just have to be reverted
as we get closer to having a single zimage across platforms.
Your suggested fix above should be enough.
Arnd
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