[U-Boot] [PATCH] OMAP3 Move cache routines to cache.S

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Aug 12 23:49:41 CEST 2009


Dear Tom Rix,

In message <1250091750-1525-2-git-send-email-Tom.Rix at windriver.com> you wrote:
> v7_flush_dcache_all, because it depends on omap ROM code is not
> generic.  Rename the function to 'invalidate_dcache' and move it
> to the omap cpu directory.
> 
> Collect the other omap cache routines l2_cache_enable and
> l2_cache_disable with invalide_dcache into cache.S.  This
> means removing the old cache.c file that contained l2_cache_enable
> and l2_cache_disable.
> 
> The conversion from cache.c to cache.S was done most through
> disassembling the uboot binary.  The only significant change was
> to change the comparision for the return of get_cpu_rev from

May I ask what the motivation for this change was? Normally we try to
move as much code as possible to C, i. e. go the opposite way.

> The disable routine is similar enough that it was not
> tested with this method.
> 
> Run tested by cold booting from nand on beagle and zoom1.
> Compile tested on MAKEALL arm.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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