[openib-general] Re: mstflint failing on sparc64
Roland Dreier
roland.list at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 15:26:13 PST 2005
> > Generally, do yo happend to know if mmapping /dev/mem
> > to userspace works on this architecture?
> I can't imagine that it would not. I will see if I can dig info up.
> The one thing that is weird on sparc64 is that the pci bus is virtually
> (not physically) addressed. I don't know if you take that into account.
Actually I would suspect that it doesn't. If you look at drivers/char/mem.c,
you can see that there's nothing there to set up the IOMMU, so I don't
think access to PCI space will work -- a simple remap_pfn_range won't work
(sparc64 doesn't even define pgprot_noncached).
- R.
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