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SubjectRe: [PATCH] iSCSI/iBFT: use proper address translation
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:46:52PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/01/09 01:01, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > In virtual environments (namely, Xen Dom0) virt <-> phys and
> > virt <-> isa-bus translations cannot be freely interchanged. When
> > looking at memory below 1M, the latter translations should always
> > be used.
> >
>
> Do you have a different definition for isa_virt_to_bus in your kernel?
> As far as I can see it is defined to be the same as virt_to_phys. Also,
> the ISA memory is identity mapped into the domain's physical mapping
> space, so it should be directly accessible without any problems.

The issue as I've come to understand is that the virt_to_phys on
memory below the 1MB does not work. Alex suggested another fix which
ioremap's the iBFT region, but I think this patch by Martin does the same job.

Either way, it looks good to me.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <ketuzsezs@darnok.org>



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