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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2.6][2/5]Support for HPET based timer
Andi Kleen writes:
> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:18:50PM -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> >
> > > Fixmap is for HPET memory map address access. As the timer
> > > initialization happen
> > > early in the boot sequence (before vm initialization), we need to have
> > > fixmap()
> > > and fix_to_virt() to access HPET memory map address.
> >
> > Ahh, yes, you're right. You can't use ioremap at that time. Actually I
> > did the same on x86_64 not only because of vsyscalls.
>
> iirc i386 has an ioremap_early or somesuch.

bt_ioremap(). I wrote it to support early DMI scan so DMI data
could be used to blacklist BIOSen that break local APICs.
This was done pretty much just to handle Dell laptops.
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