[RFC PATCH 03/19] powerpc: gamecube: bootwrapper bits

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 26 15:36:56 EST 2009


On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:00 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> Sure, the memory controllers don't do coherency.  I'm slightly worried
> about two things:
> 1) Will the generic code use M=0 as well?  Is it a problem if it  
> doesn't?

We can make it not do it.

> 2) Do lwarx. etc. work in M=0? 

They should hopefully... as long as you don't rely on the reservation
blowing as a result of a DMA write.

Cheers,
Ben



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