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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: move firmware_ops to drivers/firmware
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:14:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131118171445.GI16735@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHkRjk5LBOFx3ir49RgEsaFwvp5UCpTjYFWto+URXebAsOP0RA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:59:04PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> No L2x0 (L210, L220, PL310) cache on ARMv8. And here I strongly
> recommend the hardware people to make proper external caches which can
> be flushed by standard CPU instructions, not MMIO. Any such caches
> must be enabled by firmware before Linux starts.

Yea, and we've seen what a trainwreck that causes on 32-bit ARM with
the kernel exploding at boot time because of a dirty L2 cache.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-18 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-17  8:49 [PATCH] ARM: move firmware_ops to drivers/firmware Alexandre Courbot
2013-11-17 15:59 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-18  3:05   ` Alex Courbot
2013-11-18 11:58     ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-18 17:03       ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-18 17:10         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-18 17:18           ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-18 17:30         ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-18 17:52           ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-19 11:38             ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-18 19:04           ` Christopher Covington
2013-11-19 11:02             ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-19  2:46       ` Alex Courbot
2013-11-19 12:26         ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-19 14:29           ` Alexandre Courbot
2013-11-19 15:07             ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-19 15:17               ` Alexandre Courbot
2013-11-18 17:00   ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-18 17:23     ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-18 17:14   ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]

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