On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:54:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Now that I think about it, I guess platforms that use values above > 0xfee00000 can also easily get into trouble as that conflicts with the > PCI I/O space, the fixmap or other special areas documented in > Documentation/arm/memory.txt. We have a bunch of those: > > default 0xfee003f8 if DEBUG_FOOTBRIDGE_COM1 > default 0xfee20000 if DEBUG_NSPIRE_CLASSIC_UART || DEBUG_NSPIRE_CX_UART > default 0xfee82340 if ARCH_IOP13XX > default 0xfef00000 if ARCH_IXP4XX && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN > default 0xfef00003 if ARCH_IXP4XX && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN > default 0xfef36000 if DEBUG_HIGHBANK_UART > default 0xfefb0000 if DEBUG_OMAP1UART1 || DEBUG_OMAP7XXUART1 > default 0xfefb0800 if DEBUG_OMAP1UART2 || DEBUG_OMAP7XXUART2 > default 0xfefb9800 if DEBUG_OMAP1UART3 || DEBUG_OMAP7XXUART3 > default 0xfefff700 if ARCH_IOP33X > default 0xff003000 if DEBUG_U300_UART > default 0xffd01000 if DEBUG_HIP01_UART > > The HIP01 is the only one that looks actively dangerous here (clashes with > fixmap), the others are probably all fine but it would be nice to stay out > of that area completely. That's wrong. Given it's PCI bus architecture and it's IO space, at least one of those above is perfectly valid. 0x3f8 into IO space might ring a bell... if not the COM1 certainly should. :) -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.