fail to disable MMU on ppc 8241

llee llee at huawei.com
Tue Apr 20 11:45:55 EST 2004


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 13:55, llee wrote:
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>>Hi, there,
>>I boot linux (2.6.3) on my ppc 8241 through vxworks bootloader. I'd got
>>a port (on address 0x70020006) to constrol three LEDs, so I could know
>>where the kernel going. But after the disable_mmu is called, I lost
>>control to the LEDs, Any suggestion on this? As I know, vxworks use a
>>one-to-one mapping MMU setup, I should must constrol the LEDs through
>>the same address.
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>With mmu off, I suspect the 8241 acts as if the entire address space
>was cacheable, which is a BAD THING for IOs typically.
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>Ben.
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Thanks Ben, It works when I disable DATA CACHE!

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