DT vs ARM static mappings

Pawel Moll pawel.moll at arm.com
Thu Sep 22 09:45:53 EDT 2011


> > Ok, what I did was grepping for all .map_io-s. Then I sorted the list
> > and had a look at first 100 and about 50% of them were doing more than
> > just creating mappings.
> 
> The answer to that is: they shouldn't be now that we have the init_early
> hook.  The only remainder for .map_io is where platforms make run-time
> decisions about what to map based on some register value somewhere
> (eg, Assabet vs Assabet+Neponset).
> 
> I do have a large patch series floating around in my git tree which tries
> to clean up to all those map_io functions - the biggest stumbling block
> to them is the Samsung stuff being indirected through its own tables.

Awesome. I'll work with an assumption that future map_io-s will only
create static mappings and nothing more then.

Cheers!

Paweł





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