asm-ppc/io.h - 8260 conditional compile?

Dan Malek dan at embeddededge.com
Wed Aug 7 00:58:23 EST 2002


acurtis at directvinternet.com wrote:

 > .... it should be implemented like the 8xx
> and 4xx processors, which it isn't without the conditional compiles.

No, it shouldn't.  The 4xx/8xx are unique because of the way they
have to map memory in support of cache coherent (i.e. uncached)
windows.  The 82xx processor family is a standard cache coherent 6xx
core and doesn't require any special software support.


> 8260 memory translations were broken in HHL 2.0 (Linux 2.4.2) Just making
> sure it isn't still broken in 2.4.17

How were they broken?


Thanks.


	-- Dan


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