L2 Cache enable on i.MX5

[festevam@gmail.com (Fabio Estevam)]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Robert Daniels
<robert.daniels@vantagecontrols.com> wrote:

> I see - so the boot loader is not supposed to enable the L2 cache and it should
> not be enabled until after the decompressor runs.
>
> In that case, where should the kernel be enabling the L2 cache? I'm using the
> 3.14 kernel for this i.MX53 product and the L2 cache is definitely not enabled.
>
> I see that there is a imx_init_l2cache defined which is being called by the imx6
> and imx35 platform code but it is not being called for the i.mx5... should it?

Should we enable the L2 cache like it is done in Barebox?

--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx53.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx53.c
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@

 static void __init imx53_init_early(void)
 {
+    unsigned int r;
+
     mxc_set_cpu_type(MXC_CPU_MX53);
+
+    __asm__ __volatile__("mrc 15, 0, %0, c1, c0, 1":"=r"(r));
+    r |= 1 << 1;     /* enable L2 cache */
+    __asm__ __volatile__("mcr 15, 0, %0, c1, c0, 1" : : "r"(r));
 }

 static void __init imx53_dt_init(void)

Regards,

Fabio Estevam