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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>
Cc: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: looking for documentation on porting Linux to PowerPC platforms
Date: 05 Dec 2002 10:33:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1039080798.651.54.camel@zion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021205105400.B3899@crystal.2d3d.co.za>


> What about caches? Do you care whether caching is enabled or not?

Not really. We do enable L1 on "common" desktop CPUs, and machine
specific code may do more with L2 or L3 if any. It's up to you to
either setup additional caches prior to entering the kernel, or from
your machine init code.

Ben.


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      reply	other threads:[~2002-12-05  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-04  8:38 looking for documentation on porting Linux to PowerPC platforms Abraham vd Merwe
     [not found] ` <20021204192129.GA8996@mail.cryptoapps.com>
2002-12-05  8:48   ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-12-05 18:35     ` Chris Zimman
     [not found] ` <1039025018.651.43.camel@zion>
2002-12-05  8:54   ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-12-05  9:33     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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