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Re: [PATCH 1/2] m68k/atari - stram: alloc ST-RAM pool even if kernel not in ST-RAM



On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:23 AM, schmitz
<schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
>>> Instead of mucking around with ioremap (which appears to
>>> rely on the physical area being mappped by mem_init), use
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's not true. E.g. I/O memory is never mapped by mem_init().
>
> Why, then, does the ioremap() of ST-RAM fail? Because the physical address
> is lower than the lowest currently mapped physical address?

I don't know. How does it fail?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
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