[PATCH] powerpc/booke: Add support for new e500mc core
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Wed Jun 18 01:04:31 EST 2008
On Jun 17, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> But: since the cacheline is available in cputable, it can still be
>> used at runtime, so as long as the alignments are large enough,
>> stuff like the dcbz loops should still be OK (might need an audit
>> though to make sure there's nothing missed). With that, you could
>> at least still boot an E500MC kernel on E500.
>
> Its not as simple as that since there are assumptions about how many
> bytes a dcbz will clear.
Ok, ppc64 already gets that info from the cputable, not from compile
time options. I guess ppc32 lacks that so far.
-Olof
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