Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:43:13 -0600 | | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | | Subject | Re: [Question] How to represent SYSTEM_RAM in kerenel/resouce.c |
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:37:13AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > I think we should take system ram out of the iomem file, at least.
Rubbish. iomem is a representation of the physical addresses in the system as seen from the CPU's perspective. As I said in my previous mail in this thread, if you attempt to map a device's BAR over the top of physical RAM, things will go poorly for you.
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