Booting Imac G5
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 23 23:35:26 EST 2004
> They may use the SPU interface to access the RAM. But, in fact,
> looking
> at the OF SMU driver, I should have been warned about the cache issue:
> this routine is quite clear:
> : clr-cache-lines
> cmd-buf ^dcbf ^sync ;
Well yes, but Apple OF tends to use very heavy hammers for no
reason at all, all of the time ;-)
I'd really like to _understand_ the issue -- although that's
not necessary at all for programming the driver, of course,
monkey-see, monkey-do worked fine for all the other Mac
drivers ;-P
Segher
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