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From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
To: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Linaro Patches <patches@linaro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm64: add early_ioremap support
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:38:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1394037524.5094.35.camel@deneb.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_JsqLQ8gj4nkwh+67i58rQBARoh_CgZ+4D9uepdBQm-XBwJA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 17:31 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Add support for early IO or memory mappings which are needed
> > before the normal ioremap() is usable. This also adds fixmap
> > support for permanent fixed mappings such as that used by the
> > earlyprintk device register region.
> 
> One minor comment:
> 
> > +enum fixed_addresses {
> > +       FIX_EARLYCON,
> 
> Can you align this name with x86 and rename to FIX_EARLYCON_MEM_BASE.
> Doing that will help enable the earlycon driver in 8250_early.c.

Is there any advantage to earlycon=uart8250 vs. earlyprintk=uart8250?
I don't mind using FIX_EARLYCON_MEM_BASE, but CONFIG_FIX_EARLYCON_MEM
is X86 only right now and I think changing that should be a separate
patch.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-04 20:08 [PATCH 0/5] mm: generic " Mark Salter
2014-03-04 20:08 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap Mark Salter
2014-03-04 20:08 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: create generic early_ioremap() support Mark Salter
2014-03-05 22:29   ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-06 21:25     ` Mark Salter
2014-03-04 20:08 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86: use generic early_ioremap Mark Salter
2014-03-04 20:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot Mark Salter
2014-03-04 20:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm64: add early_ioremap support Mark Salter
2014-03-04 23:31   ` Rob Herring
2014-03-05 16:38     ` Mark Salter [this message]
2014-03-06  8:20       ` Rob Herring

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