[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot help request for OHCI driver with CPU cache on

Markus Klotzbücher
2008-05-16T16:24:49Z

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com> writes:

> On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:37:04 Markus Klotzb?cher wrote:
>> > Could you suggest me how to solve the problem?
>> > Is there any specific part of USB driver that requires cache handling?
>>
>> None that I'm aware of, but I could imagine that enabling caches might
>> cause some kind of problems.
> With U-Boot's current OHCI implementation you will run into trouble at least
> with cache incoherent CPUs like the 4xx PowerPCs. The 4xx_enet driver
> has been modified to deal with this stuff when data caches are enabled.
> The USB OHCI driver will also need that kind of fixing (making the code very
> ugly). An other approach would be to put the USB DMA accessable memory into
> some non-cached memory. Perhaps this is much more simple.

Thanks for the explanation. Yes I agree that this is likely the
problem.

I'm wondering if the benefits of having the cache enabled is worth the
pain of fixing (= making the code uglier) this at all. I somehow doubt
it.