[PATCH 53/61] 82xx: Set NOT_COHERENT_CACHE on 8272 with PCI.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jul 19 06:08:48 EST 2007


Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 10:28 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>> Hrm... I for one would be a lot more comfortable with this patch if
>> you had a theoretical explanation for why it's necessary, in addition
>> to the "seems to fix things".

Sure, so would I; I just wanted to point out the issue, and make 
available a quick fix for anyone else that might be having problems.

My theoretical explanation is that the hardware is broken. :-P

> I agree w/David.  Have you tried turning on the  CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT?  
> Take a look at include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h  and search for the 
> reference to CONFIG_PPC_83xx.

OK, that appears to work as well.

-Scott



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