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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kumar,

in message <DD1539F4-3992-4D8E-92D1-8C53826FDB06 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Yes - the thing is that after a TFTP download flush_cache() is called
for the size of the downloaded filr; this may be 8 or 32 MiB or  more
;-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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