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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] i.MX5/6 U-Boot: Cache enabling (was: Re: Skipping relocation RAM to RAM, esp. on i.MX6?)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:18:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202041118.55183.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2CEEA0.9080109@googlemail.com>

> Let's discuss how to enable the i.MX5/6 caches in U-Boot:
> 
> On 03.02.2012 12:00, Stefano Babic wrote:
> > On 03/02/2012 11:18, Dirk Behme wrote:
> ...
> 
> >>> As your concerns are surely related to speed up the boot process, IMHO
> >>> we can focus efforts to add cache support for MX5 / MX6.
> >> 
> >> Ok, sounds good. Any idea what has to be done for this? Or what would be
> >> the steps for this?
> > 
> > As armv7 architecture, the MX can profit of the work already done for
> > other SOCs. Functions for enabling / disabling / invalidate caches are
> > already provided, in arch/arm/lib and arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c. So
> > at least for MX5/MX6.
> > 
> > But we should change MXC drivers to be cache-aware. At least the FEC
> > driver and MMC driver are known to not work when dcache is on.
> 
> Marek, Troy, Fabio: What do you think is needed to make the i.MX5/6
> FEC driver cache-aware?

I already have a partly finished implementation of FEC ethernet with cache 
support somewhere on my drive.

M
> 
> Jason, Stefano: And what do you think would be needed for the MMC driver?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Dirk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-04 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-03  7:25 [U-Boot] Skipping relocation RAM to RAM, esp. on i.MX6? Dirk Behme
2012-02-03  8:51 ` Stefano Babic
2012-02-03 10:18   ` Dirk Behme
2012-02-03 11:00     ` Stefano Babic
2012-02-03 11:19       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-04  8:38       ` [U-Boot] i.MX5/6 U-Boot: Cache enabling (was: Re: Skipping relocation RAM to RAM, esp. on i.MX6?) Dirk Behme
2012-02-04  9:18         ` [U-Boot] i.MX5/6 U-Boot: Cache enabling Aneesh V
2012-02-04 10:18         ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-02-08 13:37           ` Dirk Behme
2012-02-09  7:06             ` Marek Vasut
2012-02-04  9:15 ` [U-Boot] Skipping relocation RAM to RAM, esp. on i.MX6? Aneesh V
2012-02-04 11:00   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-04 11:14     ` Aneesh V
2012-02-04 11:37       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-06 14:34     ` Tom Rini
2012-02-06 21:21       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-06 22:27         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-06 22:41           ` Graeme Russ
2012-02-07  7:19             ` Aneesh V
2012-02-07 23:26               ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-08  6:43                 ` Aneesh V
2012-02-08 13:58                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-08 14:48                     ` Aneesh V
2012-02-08 16:23                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-09  6:01                         ` Aneesh V
2012-02-09 11:44                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-09 13:43                             ` Aneesh V
2012-02-05  6:19   ` Simon Glass
2012-02-06 14:19     ` Aneesh V

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