Re: broken RM7000 in CVS ...

[Justin Carlson <carlson@sibyte.com>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Justin Carlson wrote:
> > 
> > This is sort of true.  Mips32 does do a pretty good job of defining how to
> > probe for L1 caches and the like, but other things, such as L2 caches, are not
> > going to be so easily probed.  
> 
> My understanding is that we don't have a standard way to probe for external
> cache (L2 or L3).  So this problem is not only for MIPS32 cpus.
> 

It's not specific to mips32 processors, no.  My point was, the mips32 spec
doesn't (and probably shouldn't, IMHO) solve this problem completely.

> > If I'm understanding your idea correctly, this table would require you to
> > always compile in all the mmu routines for all processors, just to fill in the
> > table entries.  Doesn't seem like a particularly good idea to me, even if we
> > could use generic mips32 routines for most parts.
> >
> 
> Each table entry can be surrounded by something like #if
> defined(CONFIG_CPU_RM7000) and #endif.  That should take care of the problem.
> 

Not if you want to have constant-defined offsets into the table.  Which is just
about the only reason to use a table for this...Either:

1)  You've got multiple entries in the table for different cpus, which you're
indexing by some hash of PRID fields.  This requires a full table.  (Or a really
ugly hash function that's adaptive depending on which which cpu support is
compiled in)

2)  You've got a single entry table.  

Unless I'm really misunderstanding what you're proposing...

-Justin