[PATCH] common: spl: Enable Instruction cache after relocation in board_init_r

[Kumar, Udit]

On 11/29/2025 12:54 AM, Ernest Van Hoecke wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 06:34:15PM +0530, Kumar, Udit wrote:
>> Thanks Ernest for reviving this patch ,
>>
>> Changes in arch/arm/mach-k3/common.c seems good to me.
>>
>> but common/spl/spl.c can not pushed in generic way, I can think of few
>> platforms running SPL w/o caches on.
>>
> Hi Udit,
>
> Thanks for your prompt reply and input. I have now tested this patch but
> with the enable_caches in common/spl/spl.c dropped, and everything looks
> great to me. I will continue running the tests over the weekend, but can
> confirm that this change seems unnecessary to fix the issue we saw with
> sporadic boot failures.

Thanks again Ernest,

Ideally, I prefer to revert commit sha 52a86e69e20.

Adding more TI folks for any objection on reverting sha 52a86e69e20

>
> A v2 that only touches mach-k3/common.c would be suitable. If you
> prefer, I have a patch ready that we can send. I don't believe much

Unfortunately, only change in mach-k3/common.c will not be enough to fix 
the issue.

we need to clean-caches at board_init_r stage, and which is common code.


> functionality is lost by simply dropping the spl.c line, platforms can
> enable caches themselves as they want.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ernest