[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 03/10] armv7: cache maintenance operations for armv7

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue May 17 11:31:02 CEST 2011


Dear Aneesh V,

In message <4DD23D3A.4010001 at ti.com> you wrote:
> 
> > How much of this is actually needed in the context of U-Boot?
> 
> Please see above. As far as I know OMAP doesn't do DMA in U-Boot.

Devices like USB oth Ethernet don't use DMA for data transfers?

> > Please do not add dead code.  I consider it misleading to have
> > functions which promise to perform something, and actually do nothing.
> 
> These are empty only in the else part of an #ifdef. When cache support
> is compiled out these need to be empty.

When cache support is compiled out there should be no callers to these
functions, so maybe they can disappear?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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