Re: [PATCH] setup.c: introduce __pa_symbol() and get ride of CPHYSADDR()

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Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:01:53 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I think this peice of code is just broken, as you said.  This is bogus
>>> but harmless since we have not checked these resources are
>>> successfully registered or not.
>> what about all other uses of virt_to_phys(x) ? And what the point to set
>> PAGE_OFFSET to 0xa800000000000000 ? I'm really confused...
> 
> For now I have not seen any problem on other usages.
> 

do you know at which point the kernel starts to use XKPHYS addresses ?

> We can use large flat mapping space in XKPHYS.  No TLB conversion, no
> highmem trick.
> 

ok, and does the trick on KSEG0/XKPHYS really worth ? I mean what is
the size code gain ?

Thanks
		Franck


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