From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:16:00 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/9] CACHE: net: Test if start address is aligned In-Reply-To: References: <1340583477-14018-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> <1340583477-14018-8-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <201206260116.01019.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Joe Hershberger, > Hi Marek, > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > > This prevents the scenario where data cache is on and the > > device uses DMA to deploy data. In that case, it might not > > be possible to flush/invalidate data to RAM properly. The > > other option is to use bounce buffer, but that involves a > > lot of copying and therefore degrades performance rapidly. > > Therefore disallow this possibility of unaligned load address > > altogether if data cache is on. > > > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut > > Cc: Joe Hershberger > > --- > > Acked-by: Joe Hershberger NAK, actually ... let's wait until the discussion is settled ;-) Best regards, Marek Vasut