Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:43:17 +0200 | From | Stefan Agner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] ARM: early fixmap support for earlycon |
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On 2015-06-17 00:32, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:51:47PM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote: >> Add early fixmap support, initially to support permanent, fixed >> mapping support for early console. A temporary, early pte is >> created which is migrated to a permanent mapping in paging_init. >> This is also needed since the attributes may change as the memory >> types are initialized. The 3MiB range of fixmap spans two pte >> tables, but currently only one pte is created for early fixmap >> support. >> >> Re-add FIX_KMAP_BEGIN to the index calculation in highmem.c since >> the index for kmap does not start at zero anymore. This reverts >> 4221e2e6b316 ("ARM: 8031/1: fixmap: remove FIX_KMAP_BEGIN and >> FIX_KMAP_END") to some extent. > > Sorry, this isn't going to make the next merge window, I've closed my > tree at the end of last week to new submissions (because it got too > painful to maintain the for-next branch due to the number of cross- > dependencies between branches.) The only patches I'll entertain this > week and throughout the merge window are bug fixes.
Ok no problem, I guess it's anyway a good idea to add it early in the development cycle so the change gets a bit more testing coverage. Shall I rebase the patch just after the merge window and send it out again or add the patch in its current state to your patch tracker?
-- Stefan
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