[U-Boot] i.MX5/6 U-Boot: Cache enabling

[Aneesh V]

Hi Dirk,

On Saturday 04 February 2012 02:08 PM, Dirk Behme wrote:
>
> Let's discuss how to enable the i.MX5/6 caches in U-Boot:
>
> On 03.02.2012 12:00, Stefano Babic wrote:
>> On 03/02/2012 11:18, Dirk Behme wrote:
> ...
>>>> As your concerns are surely related to speed up the boot process, IMHO
>>>> we can focus efforts to add cache support for MX5 / MX6.
>>>
>>> Ok, sounds good. Any idea what has to be done for this? Or what would be
>>> the steps for this?
>>
>> As armv7 architecture, the MX can profit of the work already done for
>> other SOCs. Functions for enabling / disabling / invalidate caches are
>> already provided, in arch/arm/lib and arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c. So
>> at least for MX5/MX6.
>>
>> But we should change MXC drivers to be cache-aware. At least the FEC
>> driver and MMC driver are known to not work when dcache is on.
>
> Marek, Troy, Fabio: What do you think is needed to make the i.MX5/6 FEC
> driver cache-aware?
>
> Jason, Stefano: And what do you think would be needed for the MMC driver?

Three is a generic README for ARM at doc/README.arm-caches

br,
Aneesh