[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Introduce CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_ENV_RELOC

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 18 18:23:00 CET 2010


On Nov 18, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> Some systems need to relocate the env_addr pointer early because the
> location its point to will get invalidated before env_relocate is
> called.  One example is on systems that might use a L2 or L3 cache
> in SRAM mode and initialize that cache from SRAM mode back to being
> a cache in cpu_init_r.
> 
> We set this on the 85xx boards that have support for NAND, SPI, or
> SDHC/MMC boot support as they use a secondary cache in SRAM mode and
> need the env_addr pointer relocated since we change from SRAM to normal
> cache mode in cpu_init_r.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/lib/board.c     |   11 +++++++++++
> include/configs/MPC8536DS.h  |    1 +
> include/configs/MPC8569MDS.h |    1 +
> include/configs/P1_P2_RDB.h  |    1 +
> 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Wolfgang,

I dont think either of us are happy with this solution but not really sure what else to do.  Please ack if you're grudgingly ok with this.  :)

- k


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