[U-Boot-Users] Regarding Dcache Flush in MPC85xx

s.balamurugan s.balamurugan at gdatech.co.in
Tue Feb 26 18:30:17 CET 2008


Hi,
We are using MPC8555 processor and uboot 1.1.4 both the uboot and linux 
was up. Now we plan to port QNX, we are facing following issues.

1. Qnx is not jumping to the startup location.  After giving go command 
control is still in the uboot only.

2.  When searching in the mailling list we came to know qnx required to 
flush the Data Cache before disabling it in the uboot level 
(common/cmd_bootelf.c line no:59)

3.  I checked other powerpc architecture like 7xx/74xx, 86xx and 4xx. 
These architecture  has seperate cache.S file ( cpu/mpc86xx/cache.S). That
file contains flush_data_cache function to flush the cache before 
disabling it. But in the MPC85xx flushing the data cache was missing.

4. This is a bug in the 85xx uboot code. Is there any work arround for 
this?

Thanks and Regards
S.Balamurugan




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