[U-Boot-Users] mips cache and relocate_code()

Burch, John T. John.Burch at tellabs.com
Thu Apr 13 18:27:28 CEST 2006


Code is relocated from flash to RAM in cpu/mips/start.S/relocate_code().
After the code is moved a comment in the code says, "If caches were
enabled,
we would have to flush them here."  Based on code in the same file,
the caches are enabled - and I agree that the data cache needs to be
flushed,
(and instruction cached invalidated to be safe) but it isn't.
Is there a reason it's not?
 
Also, flush_cache() is not implemented in cpu/mips/cpu.c.  This function
appears
to be required by cmd_net.c/netboot_common().  Is there a reason
flush_cache()
is not implemented?

I ask because I'm seeing unexplained code behavior that goes away if I
don't 
enable the caches.

John
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