[U-Boot] [PATCH V4] net: fec_mxc: allow use with cache enabled

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 12:42:08 CEST 2012


Dear Stefano Babic,

> On 26/03/2012 00:11, Eric Nelson wrote:
> > Hi Marek,
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> > Have you had a chance to review this V4 patch for the fec_mxc driver?
> > 
> >     http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-March/120205.html
> 
> Marek has sent all cache relevant patches together in the same patchset.
> If I am not wrong, your V4 was sent as :

That's true ... also, I'm afraid the arm926ejs stuff won't be Acked by AA since 
he's gone ... somewhere, noone knows where :-(

> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/147143/
> 
> and he added his own Ack.
> 
> > Note that Stefano pointed out yesterday that PPC doesn't properly
> > implement "invalidate_dcache_range".
> > 
> >     http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-March/120918.html
> > 
> > I believe you mentioned previously that the fec_mxc driver was
> > compatible with certain PPC SOCs, so this might temporarily block
> > any such transition.
> 
> For FEC it is easier as for ESDHC. The controller on PowerPC has the
> same name, but it is different - and there is  a different driver. The
> fec_mxc.c is only for i.MX SOCs, and we are sure we do not break other
> architectures, except i.MX. I know it breaks MX3x, I will check it.
> 
> The whole serie depends on the first patch:
> 	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/147135/
> 
> This must be acked / merged by Albert, because it is for all arm926 SOCs.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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