Name

ioremap — map bus memory into CPU space

Synopsis

void __iomem * ioremap (unsigned long offset, unsigned long size);

Arguments

offset

bus address of the memory

size

size of the resource to map

Description

ioremap performs a platform specific sequence of operations to make bus memory CPU accessible via the readb/readw/readl/writeb/ writew/writel functions and the other mmio helpers. The returned address is not guaranteed to be usable directly as a virtual address.