From: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
To: "Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: "Dechesne, Nicolas" <n-dechesne@ti.com>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: L2 cache stability workaround for 4460 ES1.0
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:02:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F795D02.8010705@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMQu2gy0Y1-kJyozbMZS4A4VXVt-K-M4zSih-gfStVmPpq-7NQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/02/2012 10:58 AM, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> wrote:
>> On 04/02/2012 10:38 AM, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Santosh,
>>>>
>>>> I came across the attached patch from you. I also came across this post
>>>> stating that it was decided not to send this patch upstream.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/18885/8437/#post8496
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that we have to keep porting this patch each time we
>>>> update the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Do you know if the root cause has been found? If not can we have this
>>>> patch upstream till the root cause is found?
>>>>
>>> Yes and fixed in OMAP4460 ES1.2.
>>
>> Did you mean ES1.1?
>>
> yep. Sorry for the typo.
>
>> Could you please point me to the errata ID? The only cache related
>> errata I can see is Errata ID: i690
>>
>>>
>>>> It seems the patch at least makes the kernel usable on ES1.0.
>>>>
>>> I know but that still is not enough. It's like 80 % WA of the issue
>>> seen on ES1.0. We are not suppose to have many boards with
>>> ES1.0
>>>
>> Even better if there are not many boards. It seems most of the boards
>> will be with TI. I think we should have the fix in even if it is not
>> 100% fix.
>>
>> What do you say?
>>
> My request is to get rid of ES1.0 board because the WA just
> not completely correct. Don't feel patching kernel for silicon
> which is not suppose to be used nether has complete WA
> to support it.
>
OK Santosh. seems like cache is broken bad on ES1.0.
Is it possible to disable the cache for ES1.0 and print a warning
message about it?
regards,
-roger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-02 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-02 6:55 L2 cache stability workaround for 4460 ES1.0 Roger Quadros
2012-04-02 7:38 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-02 7:55 ` Roger Quadros
2012-04-02 7:58 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-02 8:02 ` Roger Quadros [this message]
2012-04-02 9:13 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
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