[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 01/23] ppc: Add initial memory barrier macros

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Feb 12 20:06:23 CET 2013


Hi Scott,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 12:55:39 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> Can you please take a look at this code too, from the patch which
>> brings in post-relocation board init (board_r.c):
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC
>>         /* TODO: Can we not use dmb() macros for this? */
>>         asm("sync ; isync");
>> #endif
>
>
> I'm not sure why we need that at all.  It's been there since "Initial
> revision", so git history isn't helpful in explaining it.

OK great, I will punt it for generic board.

>
> -Scott

Regards,
Simon


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