[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] armv7: cache maintenance operations

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>]

Le 28/12/2010 20:51, Paulraj, Sandeep a ?crit :
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>> Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] armv7: cache maintenance operations
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>> With D-cache and MMU enabled for ARM in u-boot it becomes imperative to
>> support a minimal set of cache maintenance operations and necessary
>> initializations before enabling MMU.
>>
>> This series of patches attempt to do the following for armv7:
>> * Necessary initialization sequence before enabling MMU that includes
>>    invalidation of TLB, data caches, branch predictor array etc.
>> * Framework for supporting SOC specific outer caches in a generic manner
>>    (using a structure of function pointers - inspired by the Linux
>>    implementation)
>> * Generic armv7 cache maintenance operations for caches known to the CPU
>> * Support for ARM PL310 L2 cache controller used in OMAP4
>> * Cleanup of the cleanup_before_linux() function
>> * Adapting all armv7 SOCs to use the new framework and removing
>>    duplicated code
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>> Testing:
>> * Extensive testing on OMAP4430SDP and OMAP3430SDP by creating coherency
>>    issues and solving them using the maintenance routines
>> 	- Eg: memfill a region of memory with a known pattern
>> 	- Invalidate the region
>> 	- Read back and compare the region with the original pattern
>> 	- If match fails it means that invalidate is successful
>> 	- Now add a flush call just before the invalidate
>> 	- If match succeeds it means that flush was successful
>> 	- Outer caches were tested with experiments involving making the
>> 	  function pointers NULL
>> * Kernel booting on OMAP4430SDP and OMAP3430SDP
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>> Aneesh V (8):
>>    arm: make default implementation of cache_flush() weakly linked
>>    armv7: cache maintenance operations for armv7
>>    armv7: integrate cache maintenance support
>>    arm: minor fixes for cache and mmu handling
>>    armv7: add PL310 support to u-boot
>>    armv7: adapt omap4 to the new cache maintenance framework
>>    armv7: adapt omap3 to the new cache maintenance framework
>>    armv7: adapt s5pc1xx to the new cache maintenance framework
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> As I mentioned to John Rigby in anoterh e-mail, I will be on vacation till the 20th of January. So there might be a little delay in merging this patch series after due review by the community.
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> Regards,
> Sandeep

Hi Sandeep,

I have assigned these to me in patchwork but feel free to reclaim them 
if you prefer.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.