RE: [Xen-devel] allocating AGP aperture memory

To:	"Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] allocating AGP aperture memory
From:	"Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:12:24 +0100
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> At some point I need to be able to remap the actual, physical 
> e0000000 address range into something locally addressable.  
> ioremap_cache is failing, though that might be because of the 
> page reserve collision above.

I haven't looked at the code, but why would you want to map the GART
aperture into kernel virtual address space? The CPU shouldn't need to
access stuff through the remapped region -- its PCI DMAs that should be
using it.

Ian


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