[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM1136: add cache flush and invalidate operations

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Fri Mar 30 18:16:07 CEST 2012


On 30/03/2012 18:05, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>
>> I am testing Anatolij's patch on mx35pdk.
>>
>> TFTP from server 192.168.2.14; our IP address is 192.168.2.97
>> Filename 'mx35pdk/uImage'.
>> Load address: 0x80800000
>> Loading: Misaligned cache operation [8fe726e8, 8fe72728]
>>
>> However, data is correctly loaded. I will check mmc on the "flea" board.
> 
> You get this from FEC? 

Yes, I must set explicitely ethact=FEC, because on the mx35pdk ethprime
is set to SMC911.

>Will have to recheck, this is weird, will recheck once I 
> get back to my m28.

I will check also on the flea3 board later.

> 
>>
>>> It's a good thing this stirred a wave of response including patches. We
>>> now know very well which boards are maintained ;-)
>>>
>>> Also, once any such breaking patch lands into mainline, we'll know in
>>> _less_than_24_hours_ that something got broken. (this is handled by DENX
>>> CI machine).
>>
>> Well, this is a good thing - my worries are about that patches for imx
>> were already merged, and
>>
>>> Finally, we can't really run physical (HW) tests indeed, but did we ever
>>> run physical tests with each and every patch?
>>
>> Not every patch, but a patchset that can have influence on several SOCs,
>> yes.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>>
>>> (and to conclude this -- these patches
>>> were tested on M28 and MX6Q-board)
>>
>> mmmh...I suppose the following patches must be merged, too (I had merged
>> into u-boot-next, really):
>>
>> Author: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>
>> Date:   Sun Mar 4 11:47:37 2012 +0000
>>
>>     i.MX6: define CACHELINE_SIZE
>>
>> and also even if not mandatory:
>> commit 1b2150b0770d8d019a41993d8692e4a29bf70a9e
>> Author: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>
>> Date:   Sun Mar 4 11:47:38 2012 +0000
>>
>>     i.MX6: implement enable_caches()
>>
>>     disabled by default until drivers are fixed
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>
>>     Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> 
> They weren't already? Hm.

They are not - I thought to push all patches together, and for this
reason they are on the -next branch. I merge both into -master, and they
will part of my next pull.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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