[U-Boot-Users] Re: "go addr" Question...

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <431DD0C1.6040707 at smiths-aerospace.com> you wrote:
>
> U-boot typically runs with instruction cache enabled and data cache 
> disabled (experience base: PowerPC).  This is because instruction cache 

We typically enable icache, that's true. If data cache is on  or  off
depends, even on PowerPC. See the README.

> "just works" and is very beneficial and data cache generally causes 
> massive grief (it is pretty much useless without setting up the BATs or 
> full MMU on the PowerPC).

Data cache can be very important if you need an initial stack  before
you have any writable memory on the system.

> It sounds like Robin has data caching turned on, which would explain why 
> he needs to flush the data cache before jumping to his newly loaded 

No, it does not. As I just explained, all download commands implement
cache flushing (I think).


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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