[U-Boot] arm: Activating dcache breaks 'usb start' and 'tftpboot' on jadecpu
Matthias Weißer
weisserm at arcor.de
Fri Dec 3 17:48:01 CET 2010
Am 03.12.2010 17:34, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
> In addition to making sure that register reads/write are not bitten by
> caching, note that some controllers have DMA capabilities which require
> proper cache handling for DMA memory buffers -- typically flushing them
> from cache before a DMA to the device, and invalidating their cache
> entries after a DMA from the device.
This is true. DMA and caching can be a lot of fun for a driver developer
:-) But I can guarantee that the network driver doesn't use any DMA
transfer as the hardware doesn't support it.
Thanks
Matthias Weißer
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