Argh, can't find dcache properties !

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Mar 24 15:47:38 AEDT 2020


Chris Packham <Chris.Packham at alliedtelesis.co.nz> writes:
> Hi All,
>
> Just booting up v5.5.11 on a Freescale T2080RDB and I'm seeing the
> following mesage.
>
> kern.warning linuxbox kernel: Argh, can't find dcache properties !
> kern.warning linuxbox kernel: Argh, can't find icache properties !
>
> This was changed from DBG() to pr_warn() in commit 3b9176e9a874
> ("powerpc/setup_64: fix -Wempty-body warnings") but the message seems
> to be much older than that. So it's probably been an issue on the T2080
> (and other QorIQ SoCs) for a while.

That's an e6500 I think? So 64-bit Book3E.

You'll be getting the default values, which is 64 bytes so I guess that
works in practice.

> Looking at the code the t208x doesn't specifiy any of the d-cache-
> size/i-cache-size properties. Should I add them to silence the warning
> or switch it to pr_debug()/pr_info()?

Yeah ideally you'd add them to the device tree(s) for those boards.

cheers


More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list