[PATCH] Add StorCenter DTS first draft.
Jon Loeliger
jdl at freescale.com
Fri Jul 20 02:05:29 EST 2007
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 16:54, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Cache line size is used by the kernel on ppc64 for things like clearing
> memory (to get the stride between subsequent dcbz) or flushing the
> cache :-) It's also passed on to userland.
>
> If it's absent from the device-tree, we default to the values in the
> cputable, but if you're going to put the properties in the tree, don't
> put a 0 in there. As it is, the day I make the 64 bits code common, your
> DT will break unless I special case "0".
>
> Ben.
So, just to put this issue to rest some, I have
modified my DTS to have correct values here.
It was _easy_. ;-)
But, a followup patch should clean up _other_, existing
DTS files that have 0 there still.
jdl
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