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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Allow for arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER
On Aug 28 2005, at 18:39, Russell King was caught saying:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:12:02PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> > Version 6 of the ARM architecture introduces the concept of 16MB pages
> > (supersections) and 36-bit (40-bit actually, but nobody uses this)
> > physical addresses. 36-bit addressed memory and I/O and ARMv6 can
> > only be mapped using supersections and the requirement on these is
> > that both virtual and physical addresses be 16MB aligned.
>
> Have we sorted out how we handle the issue of IO vs memory outside the
> normal 4GB? We can only map one or other depending on how the domains
> are setup and get the correct permission behaviour.

That's an arch-specific issue that we'll have to handle in the ARM code
and really shouldn't impact this patch itself. FYI, all the 36-bit CPUs
I know of (from Intel) only have I/O above 4G.

~Deepak

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