[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] ARM: Merge v7 and v8 outer cache operations

[Mark Rutland]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:11:48PM +0000, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:56:52 +0000, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 03:08:54AM +0000, fenghua at phytium.com.cn wrote:
> > > From: David Feng <fenghua at phytium.com.cn>
> > > 
> > > Armv7 and Armv8 allow outer cache exist, it is outside of the architecture
> > > defined cache hierarchy and can not be manipulated by architecture defined
> > > instructions. It's processor specific.
> > > This patch merge v7_outer_cache_* and v8 l3_cache_*.
> > 
> > This commit message is a little misleading, though it probably makes
> > sense to have something of this sort ARMv8. Info dump below.

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> So, does the commit message require rewriting?

Yup. My complaint was that outer caches _can_ be manipulated by
architecturally defined instructions, but only for maintenance by VA. So
it's wrong to say that they cannot be manipulated by archtiecturally
defined instructions.

Mark.