[RFC/PATCH] powerpc: MPC7450 L2 HW cache flush feature utilization

[Mark A. Greer]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:14:24AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> > I've double checked this. All processors considered 7450 in the kernel 
> > are covered by MPC7450 RISC Microprocessor Family Reference Manual 
> > where hardware cache flushing procedure is described.
> 
> Nice.  Now all that remains to be done is for the patch to
> be tested on actual hardware for at least a few of those
> other CPUs.  Any volunteers?

I just booted & played around on a prpmc2800e (7447A, 512MB) with
this patch and it seemed to work fine.

I *may* have some old sandpoint 745x modules that still work but
I'll have to get the sandpoint working in arch/powerpc again.
I'll try to get to that in a week or so.

Mark