Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Jul 2015 08:45:47 +0200 | From | Stefan Agner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] ARM: early fixmap support for earlycon |
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On 2015-06-17 21:43, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote: >> 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? > > Please rebase (if necessary) on -rc1 and send to the patch tracker if > there are no significant changes to it (I doubt there will be.) If > everything during the merge window works as it should, -rc1 should > basically be the contents of linux-next just before the merge window > opens, plus any fixes that are needed along the way.
Added with the additional Tested-by tags to the patch tracker (ID 8399/1). No updates were required.
-- Stefan
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