[PATCH 6/8] arm: mach-armada: add support for Armada XP board with device tree

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Ben Dooks wrote:
> >
> > Agreed. When looking at the code, I wasn't sure why PCI mappings were
> > needed so early. Surely, the minimal mappings to get an UART are quite
> > useful to have very early, but why PCI?
> 
> I think it was because that PCI was initialised early and requires a
> large mapping space. It is very likely to be legacy kernel stuff that
> people have kept copying through.
> 

No, as Rob pointed out, we might not need them early, but we definitely
want a fixed address for the PIO window, which ioremap does not
provide.

	Arnd