Re: temp. mem mappings

[Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>]

** Reply to message from "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> on Tue, 5 Jun
2001 19:41:36 +0100


> > Allocate a virtual memory area using vmalloc and then save and modify the
> > pmd/pgd/pte to point to the physical memory you want.  To unmap, just undo the
> > previous steps.
> 
> ioremap() is there for exactly that purpose. 

True, except that you can't use ioremap on normal memory, which is what I
assumed he was trying to do.


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