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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 3/4] PCI: Add support for non-BAR ROMs
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:30:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:20:07 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > We've no good way of knowing what the firmware's giving us - we copy it
> > to RAM in the EFI init process, so by the time we're here it certainly
> > shouldn't be on the PCI bus.
>
> In which case how do you know that physical address you have been given
> actually has a mapping in kernel virtual space. It seems like it ought to
> be getting an ioremap in that case ?
>
> phys_to_virt is not valid for arbitary addresses.

The pages are allocated as EFI_LOADER_DATA, and that gets mapped as
E820_RAM.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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