Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:29:44 +0530 Subject: static I/O device mapping of UART for early prints & console From: pcuser.mails@gmail.com To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
I'm doing kernel porting to arm926 based FPGA board (similar to samsung-s3c6410 board). I'm trying to setup UART for early print and console. I gone through some reference boards(samsung-s3c6410) for setting up uart for early print & console.
I can't trace the virtual mapping for UART registers in "adduart" macro in "debug-macro.S" file
.macro addruart, rp, rv ldr \rp, = S3C_PA_UART ldr \rv, = S3C_VA_UART
Basically,I want to know how to calculate this virtual address(S3C_VA_UART) from the physical address(S3C_PA_UART) actually, this is io_virtual_address map to io_physical_address, it is not equal to kernel_virtual_adressmap to kernel_physical_address.differenct platform providers such as Qualcomm, TI, STE, Samsung use different fomula to map IO address. for example, for OMAP1, TI use a very simple fomula to map from io_virtual_address to io_physical_address:io_virtual_address = io_physical_address-0x01000000 so suppose TI's uart0 physical address is 0xFFFB0000, then the virtial address of uart0 is 0xFEFB0000. for Samsung S3c64XX: 1. both physical and virtual address of uart is defined in map.h:#define S3C_PA_UART (0x7F005000) /* See notes on UART VA mapping in debug-macro.S */ #define S3C_VA_UARTx(x) (S3C_VA_UART + (S3C_PA_UART & 0xfffff) + ((x) * S3C_UART_OFFSET))#define S3C_VA_UART0 S3C_VA_UARTx(0) #define S3C_VA_UART1 S3C_VA_UARTx(1) #define S3C_VA_UART2 S3C_VA_UARTx(2) #define S3C_VA_UART3 S3C_VA_UARTx(3) 2. so for uart0, the virtual address will be:virtual_uart0_address = S3C_VA_UART + (S3C_PA_UART & 0xfffff) and in map-base.h:#define S3C_ADDR_BASE (0xF4000000) #define S3C_VA_UART S3C_ADDR(0x01000000) /* UART */ so S3C_VA_UART = 0xF5000000 3. at last:virtual_uart0_address = S3C_VA_UART + (S3C_PA_UART & 0xfffff)= 0xF5000000 + (0x7F005000&0xfffff) = 0xF5005000 please do not try to use __phys_to_virt, this is for kernel virtual address to kernel physical address translation, rather than IO address map.