ppc440 caches - change proposal [RFC]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 9 08:56:55 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:53 -0700, John Bonesio wrote:
> I was thinking it might be good to have the kernel initialize these
> cache control registers in it's own start up code. Or perhaps this
> could be done in the kernel's simple bootloader. We could probably put
> this change in a Xilinx specific startup file, but this change doesn't
> seem specific to Xilinx FPGA boards.

The kernel's wrapper would be a good place to put that I suspect. That's
the kind of thing that should be provided as a "library" function to be
optionally called by platform code. Either in the wrapper or the main
kernel platform code.

Cheers,
Ben.





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