[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: Unlock cache-as-ram in a consistent manner
Peter Tyser
ptyser at xes-inc.com
Fri Jul 24 16:41:21 CEST 2009
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 15:46 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Peter,
>
> In message <20090723190101.C8F8A832E416 at gemini.denx.de> I wrote:
> >
> > In message <1247269570-11406-1-git-send-email-ptyser at xes-inc.com> you wrote:
> > > Previously, non-e500 architectures only unlocked their data cache which
> > > was used as early RAM when booting to Linux using the "bootm" command.
> > > This change causes all PPC boards with CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_LOCK defined
> > > to unlock their data cache during U-Boot's initialization. This
> > > improves U-Boot performance and provides a common cache state when
> > > booting to different OSes.
> ...
> > Hm... tested on TQM834x - it's still booting, but flash recognition
> > stopped working:
>
> I git-bisected the problem on TQM834x:
>
> 982adfc610669482a32127282fe489857a92cfe3 is first bad commit
> commit 982adfc610669482a32127282fe489857a92cfe3
> Author: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
> Date: Fri Jul 10 18:46:10 2009 -0500
>
> ppc: Unlock cache-as-ram in a consistent manner
>
> Previously, non-e500 architectures only unlocked their data cache which
> was used as early RAM when booting to Linux using the "bootm" command.
> This change causes all PPC boards with CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_LOCK defined
> to unlock their data cache during U-Boot's initialization. This
> improves U-Boot performance and provides a common cache state when
> booting to different OSes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
>
> :040000 040000 bf1093b8403580234125df8e97d948c318e8965f 5dce3a5e28ea46706aba44ec62e88584883d0cc4 M lib_ppc
>
>
> Please suggest how to continue. Shall I revert this commit?
Did you try making the change Kim suggested? Or backing out
9993e196da707a0a1cd4584f1fcef12382c1c144 completely as a test?
Does anyone else have an 83xx board they'd be willing to try booting
with the current top of HEAD?
Best,
Peter
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