[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] mx6: Enable L2 cache support

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 18:57:10 CET 2014


Hi Stefano,

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> On 28/01/2014 17:53, Dirk Behme wrote:
>
>>
>> Just for better understanding: Do you want to keep this intentionally
>> simple? Or is there any special reason why you don't set additional
>> (performance) registers here? E.g. the L2 PREFETCH and POWER registers,
>> and the tag and data latency settings? Like done in the kernel.
>
> This is a good point ! If it is true that  L2 PREFETCH is turned on in
> mainline kernel, but it was *explicitely* turned off by Jason in FSL
> Kernel with the patch with subject ENGR00278489 (ARM PL310 errata: 7522719).

Mainline kernel and recent FSL kernels (3.0.35 4.1.0 or 3.10.17) keep
L2 prefetch enabled.

Check this commit:
http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/linux-2.6-imx.git/commit/?h=imx_3.0.35_4.1.0&id=517182a385808f60bf94e2361712d714f0a78a61

Regards,

Fabio Estevam


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