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RE: [Xen-devel] EPS Signature


  • To: "Kaushik Barde" <Kaushik_Barde@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen devel list" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 02:52:39 -0000
  • Delivery-date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:52:45 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcdG/Nc6FhN5E7LwEduJCgAX8io7RQAASYugAHRDoLA=
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] EPS Signature

> We want to access the EBDA Entry Point Signature at 40:0E for our
DOM-0
> through a driver,
> We noticed that driver is trying to read from a pseudo physical
location
> and not the physical machine RAM location. Hence it's not getting the
> proper value. But if we have to read from the machine RAM location we
can
> use ( virt_to_bus or bus_to_virt) per dev_list comments.
> 
> But this area is under the control of hypervisor. I do not know if we
can
> ioremap these pages ( those which belong to hypervisor).
> 
> I am trying to see if we can be able to get to the 40:0E address. And
get
> the correct EPS signature

Dom0 already has the bottom 1MB of physical ram mapped. You can use the
poorly named isa_bus_to_virt()

Ian



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