Dear Andrew,
In message c166aa9f0811261512p273f56a8qa17d22b4d57523d3@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
- Initially, a xlat (or insert better name here) command-line command
will be added to give you a PA given a VA, and vice-versa.
virt_to_phys and phys_to_virt?
C'me on, we actually have to *type* that command every now and then, so please let's chose a short name. "xlat" has the benefit that BDI users already know the it, it's short, and can probably be abbreviated as "xl" or so without risk of name collisions :-)
I would love to see memory addresses get parsed through a common routine - that would allow easily hooking in an arch/platform specific routine to filter out addresses that should be avoided.
U-Boot is not supposed to do any such filtering.
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk