On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:35:16AM +0000, Mark Salter wrote:
> This patch creates a generic implementation of early_ioremap() support
> based on the existing x86 implementation. early_ioremp() is useful for
> early boot code which needs to temporarily map I/O or memory regions
> before normal mapping functions such as ioremap() are available.
> 
> There is one difference from the existing x86 implementation which
> should be noted. The generic early_memremap() function does not return
> an __iomem pointer and a new early_memunmap() function has been added
> to act as a wrapper for early_iounmap() but with a non __iomem pointer
> passed in. This is in line with the first patch of this series:
> 
>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/22/69
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
> CC: Russell King <[email protected]>
> CC: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
> CC: Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
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