[PATCH 0/2] arm: add early_ioremap support

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jul 9 02:47:30 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:39:50AM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> early_ioremap()/early_memremap() create temporary virtual mappings
> in the fixmap region during boot time. Part of the support now exists
> in core code, but depends on the generic fixmap support.
> 
> This set converts arm to use the generic fixmap support, and adds the
> architecture-specific part of early_ioremap support.
> 
> The fixmap/kmap changes in 3.15 complicated things slightly compared
> to previous iterations of these patches - this version works around
> that by introducing local macros in arm/mm/highmem.c.
> 
> Tested on TC2 and software models, with/without LPAE.
> 
> Mark Salter (2):
>   arm: use generic fixmap.h
>   arm: add early_ioremap support

Curious: why are you sending these patches instead of Mark?

Will



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