[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] nand: Fix cache and memory inconsistent issue
Stefan Roese
sr at denx.de
Tue Dec 2 06:49:23 CET 2008
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Dave Liu wrote:
> we load the secondary stage u-boot image from NAND to
> system memory by nand_load, but we did not flush d-cache
> to memory, not invalidate i-cache before we jump to RAM.
> when the system is cache enable and the TLB/page attribute
> of system memory is cacheable, it will cause issue.
>
> - 83xx family is using the d-cache lock, so all of d-cache
> access is cache-inhibited. so you can't see the issue.
> - 85xx family is using d-cache, i-cache enable, partial
> cache lock. you will see the issue.
>
> The patch fix the cache issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Liu <daveliu at freescale.com>
> ---
> Stefan,
>
> I'm not familiar with ppc4xx, could you workout one
> patch for nand_boot.c?
All 4xx platforms using nand_boot.c run with D-Cache disabled at that time. So
it's currently not needed here.
Best regards,
Stefan
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