Linux 2.4 Kernel on Xilinx Virtex4 FX100's PPC

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Fri Jun 2 03:08:43 EST 2006


On 6/1/06, Peter Ryser <peter.ryser at xilinx.com> wrote:
> There are some silicon issues on the PPC405 in V4 with PVR 0x20011430
> which are documented in Xilinx solution record 20658. All these issues
> are fixed in silicon where the PPC405 has a PVR of 0x20011470.
>
> Said that it's not true that the caches cannot be used in silicon with
> PVR 0x20011430. The problem is a corner case which does not show in
> typical designs.

If I understand correctly, the cache issue only shows up with RAM
attached to the OPB (instead of PLB).  Is that correct?

Cheers,
g.



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