The errors i tried to map iomem to virtual memory

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 21:11:06 +0800, Guanghui, Cheng wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 07:28:02 Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 23:37:12 +0800, Guanghui, Cheng wrote:
> > > 	I tried to map the hpet iomem to the virtual memory but i got some
> > > error. The log is as following:
> > > vtimer  | rmgr_pager 4:0
> > > vtimer  | hpet_address 0xfed00000
> > > vtimer  | hpet size 0x400000
> > > vtimer  | hpet_virt_address 0x400000
> > > ROOT: Cannot map page at fed00000 log2_size=12 failed
> > > vtimer  | IOMem mapping error : No fpage received
> > > vtimer  | __handle_pf(): L4RM: page fault: no entry in region list
> > > vtimer  | L4RM: [PF] read at 0x00400000, ip 0100024e, src 8.02
> > > 	It seems that when I map the iomem the pagesize is not permitted but
> > > superpagesize is ok.  But i still get the error as "No fpage received".
> > > Does anybody tell me what the problem is?
> >
> > roottask can map non-RAM as superpages only. For getting device memory
> > you should use and query l4io which can handle this much better. Did you
> > try that?
> Hello, Adam:
> 	Now i fixed l4io a little and add the hpet device after the tpm device 
> in the l4io/server/src/static_cfg_x86.c and now i could map the hpet device
> into the virtual device. I could read/write the hpet device directly. This is
> a important progress for vtimer server implementation.  If i make more i
> could report to you.

Great! :)



Adam
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