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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: John Bonesio <john.bonesio@xilinx.com>
Cc: Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ppc440 caches - change proposal [RFC]
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:56:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207695415.14711.11.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080408225329.5EC171A8007D@mail11-dub.bigfish.com>


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:53 -0700, John Bonesio wrote:
> I was thinking it might be good to have the kernel initialize these
> cache control registers in it's own start up code. Or perhaps this
> could be done in the kernel's simple bootloader. We could probably put
> this change in a Xilinx specific startup file, but this change doesn't
> seem specific to Xilinx FPGA boards.

The kernel's wrapper would be a good place to put that I suspect. That's
the kind of thing that should be provided as a "library" function to be
optionally called by platform code. Either in the wrapper or the main
kernel platform code.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08 22:53 ppc440 caches - change proposal [RFC] John Bonesio
2008-04-08 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-04-08 23:15   ` Grant Likely
2008-04-09  0:47     ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-09 18:00     ` John Bonesio
2008-04-09 19:50       ` Grant Likely
2008-04-10 18:03         ` Josh Boyer

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