[PATCH v4] ARM: early fixmap support for earlycon

[Heiko Stübner]

Am Dienstag, 16. Juni 2015, 23:51:47 schrieb Stefan Agner:
> Add early fixmap support, initially to support permanent, fixed
> mapping support for early console. A temporary, early pte is
> created which is migrated to a permanent mapping in paging_init.
> This is also needed since the attributes may change as the memory
> types are initialized. The 3MiB range of fixmap spans two pte
> tables, but currently only one pte is created for early fixmap
> support.
> 
> Re-add FIX_KMAP_BEGIN to the index calculation in highmem.c since
> the index for kmap does not start at zero anymore. This reverts
> 4221e2e6b316 ("ARM: 8031/1: fixmap: remove FIX_KMAP_BEGIN and
> FIX_KMAP_END") to some extent.
> 
> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>

a bit late to the party, but on a rk3288 (Veyron Chromebook) using 8250_dw
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>


Heiko