From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4TL8lnC029307 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:08:47 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4TL8lcl029306 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:08:47 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4TL8inC029303 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:08:45 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g4TL9xX01145; Wed, 29 May 2002 14:09:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:09:59 -0700 From: Ralf Baechle To: Justin Carlson Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: __flush_cache_all() miscellany Message-ID: <20020529140959.B888@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <1022691053.7644.16.camel@ldt-sj3-022.sj.broadcom.com> <1022700389.7644.155.camel@ldt-sj3-022.sj.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1022700389.7644.155.camel@ldt-sj3-022.sj.broadcom.com>; from justinca@cs.cmu.edu on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:26:29PM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:26:29PM -0700, Justin Carlson wrote: > Here's a patch against cvs that does the rename. Unless anyone has > objections, Ralf, could you apply this? > > While doing this, I've noticed that the whole mips tree is horribly > inconsistent in terms of the cache flushing syscalls (sys_cacheflush and > sys_sysmips->CACHE_FLUSH). These are compacrapability syscalls inherited from Risc/OS and IRIX. Even gcc generated trampoline code expects to have these available. Ralf