Disabling data cache

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:23:01PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
>
> Matt Porter wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:28:21AM -0500, Jean-Denis Boyer wrote:
> >
> >>There is a kernel configuration option for that: CONFIG_DCACHE_DISABLE.
> >>In the kernel configuration UI, look into the section 'MPC8260 CPM
> >>Options'.
> >
> >
> >There is no code backing that option in linuxppc_2_4_devel, it is useless.
>
> It was orginally done for 8xx processors.  I suspect someone (I don't
> think it was me) :-) tried to consolidate 8xx and 82xx CPM configurations
> and messed it up.

My guess and recollection is that the 8260 version of this was to
disable the DCACHE in a certain manner, because of buggy silicon on a
specific board.  Someone unmerged this bit of code later I think.

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