[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/6] davinci_emac: fix for running with dcache enabled
Ilya Yanok
yanok at emcraft.com
Fri Oct 14 00:22:11 CEST 2011
Hi Stefano,
On 10.10.2011 17:17, Stefano Babic wrote:
>>> Should we not be sure that size is rounded up to align with the cache
>>> line size ?
>>
>> Surely we should. Actually it's not the size that has to be aligned but
>> the buffer itself. Is there any generic API to get the cache line size?
>
> There is a CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE. However, I see recent patches that
Yes, that's what I need. But it looks like it's defined mostly for the
PPC boards..
> can help in our case ( cache: add ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER macro):
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/117698/
Hm.. Well, actually I need to align the static buffer, so I don't need
this, __aligned(CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE) does the trick.
Regards, Ilya.
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