Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: console.c: use ioremap instead of __va to map video memory

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 07:38:18PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> On 14 Apr 2006, at 15:46, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 
> >The comment in asm-x86/io.h says "we don't need a real ioremap on
> >Xen/x86", but I think we do need it for the IOMMU work on x86-64,
> >since the hypervisor will need to map the IOMMU's internal register
> >area for things like cache flushing. Is there a fundamental objection
> >to a real ioremap for x86?
> 
> No, it got removed as it wasn't used, but it can easily be added back. 
> It's particularly easy since we probably don't need iounmap().

Hmm, looking at the hg logs, it looks like ioremap() was added for
x86-64 with the current __va() implementation. Can you please point me
at the old version?

Thanks,
Muli
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