[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] net: fec_mxc: allow use with cache enabled

Eric Nelson eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
Mon Mar 5 19:37:19 CET 2012


On 03/05/2012 10:59 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Eric Nelson,
>
>> On 03/05/2012 08:39 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> Dear Eric Nelson,
>>>
>>>> On 03/04/2012 06:49 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>> On 03/02/2012 04:39 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>>> +			 * Invalidate data cache over the buffer
>>>>>>>> +			 */
>>>>>>>> +			addr = (uint32_t)frame;
>>>>>>>> +			size = roundup(frame_length,
>>>
>>> CONFIG_FEC_DATA_ALIGNMENT);
>>>
>>>>>>>> +			invalidate_dcache_range(addr, addr + size);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DTTO here, frame length might not be aligned properly, or will it be?
>>>>>>> Network stack must be properly analyzed here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The hardware won't return an unaligned value here, so this should be
>>>>>> good.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you sure? You can't receive frame aligned to 8 bytes boundary?
>>>>
>>>> Unless I'm missing something, received packet start addresses are
>>>> defined by the driver in fec_rbd_init(), the code just modified to use
>>>> memalign, so we're good here.
>>>
>>> Ok, that's good then. I'll skim through this driver one more time tonight
>>> and see what comes out from it.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I just sent V2.
>
> I can't seem to find it, did you really send it?
>
Apparently not.

I must've fat-fingered the 'send-to' line.



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