[PATCH 2/5] [POWERPC] QE: add support for QE USB clocks routing

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Apr 18 06:14:23 EST 2008


Timur Tabi wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
> 
>> No.  clrsetbits operates on I/O registers, not RAM.
> 
> Does lwarx require the EA to be cached memory or something?

That's implementation dependent, and support for accesses to uncached 
memory is being phased out of book E according to the E500 manual.

>  The reservation is held within the processor, so it should work on I/O.

Even if the core supports lwarx/stwcx to uncached memory, the I/O bus 
must support atomic read-modify-write transactions for this to work.

Why do you think you need lwarx/stwcx to I/O?

-Scott



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