[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 00/10] armv7: cache maintenance operations

Aneesh V aneesh at ti.com
Tue May 10 12:25:10 CEST 2011


Albert, Wolfgang,

Do you plan to take this series or do you expect some more changes?

best regards,
Aneesh

On Thursday 05 May 2011 10:18 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Aneesh V <aneesh at ti.com
>     <mailto:aneesh at ti.com>> wrote:
>
>         With D-cache and MMU enabled for ARM in u-boot it becomes
>         imperative to
>         support a minimal set of cache maintenance operations and necessary
>         initializations before enabling MMU.
>
>         This series of patches attempt to do the following for armv7:
>         * Necessary initialization sequence before enabling MMU that
>         includes
>           invalidation of TLB, data caches, branch predictor array etc.
>         * Framework for supporting SOC specific outer caches in a
>         generic manner
>           (using a structure of function pointers - inspired by the Linux
>           implementation)
>         * Generic armv7 cache maintenance operations for caches known to
>         the CPU
>         * Support for ARM PL310 L2 cache controller used in OMAP4
>         * Cleanup of the cleanup_before_linux() function
>         * Adapting all armv7 SOCs to use the new framework and removing
>           duplicated code
>
>
> Any thoughts on this? What is the status please? Will this patch be
> applied, or if not, what is left to be done?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>
>


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