[PATCH] [POWERPC] 85xx: Add next-level-cache property

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 3 05:43:14 EST 2008


On May 30, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

>> Added next-level-cache to the L1 and a reference to the new L2 label.
>
> Where is this property defined?  I can't find it.
>
> The PowerPC binding defines an "l2-cache" property for this (it
> points from CPU node to L2 cache node, from L2 cache node to L3
> cache node, from L3 cache node to L4 cache node, etc.)

So looking at the PPC binding its not terrible clear about "l3-cache"  
being a valid property.  I believe the discussion w/ePAPR was to  
create something a bit more generic and clarify/update the PPC binding.

I'm going to stick with the new binding as we don't use this linking  
currently.

- k



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