[U-Boot] armv7: fix: Disable D cache for goni target (s5p)
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Sat Jul 16 11:33:19 CEST 2011
Hi Lukasz,
Le 15/07/2011 09:34, Lukasz Majewski a écrit :
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:00:23 +0200
> Albert ARIBAUD<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lukasz,
>>
>> Le 11/07/2011 09:41, Lukasz Majewski a écrit :
>>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski<l.majewski at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Minkyu Kang<mk7.kang at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Aneesh V<aneesh at ti.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> Can you please submit a V2 patch in which the commit message provides
>> a rationale for turning the data cache off? People who want to turn
>> it on later will benefit from the info.
>>
>> Amicalement,
>
> Hi Albert,
>
> Rationale for turning OFF D cache:
>
> 1. Before change introduced in commit
> SHA1:c2dd0d45540397704de9b13287417d21049d34c6 the D-cache for
> GONI/Universal_c210 targets was disabled. This change was supposed to
> preserve this state.
>
> 2. I've done some investigation about enabling D-cache support. It
> turned out, that some drivers (which are already posted or are in the
> queue for posting to u-boot list) have had problems with D-cache
> coherency.
>
> This commit shall be treated as a temporal solution. After solving
> cache management (and coherency) problems the D-cache would be
> definitely enabled.
Thanks. Except for a typo (Temporal-> Temporary), please put this
rationale in the commit message for V2.
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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