[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] ppc flush_cache: add watch-dog triggering into the loops.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Apr 29 15:28:24 CEST 2008


On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> From: Yuri Tikhonov <yur at emcraft.com>
>
> Some boards (e.g. lwmon5) need rather a frequent watch-dog
> kicking. Since the time it takes for the flush_cache() function
> to complete its job depends on the size of data being flushed, one
> may encounter watch-dog resets on such boards when, for example,
> download big files over ethernet.

is this because the size argument being passed to flush_cache is well  
beyond the size of the cache itself?

- k





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