From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:45:33 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mpc83xx: New board support SIMPC8313 In-Reply-To: <821333.7706.qm@web83504.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <821333.7706.qm@web83504.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <491C75CD.8000408@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Ron Madrid wrote: >> Use raw accessors and make sure that explicit barriers are used where >> needed. > > Is there somewhere that I can find information regarding when and where are the appropriate places are to use barriers? Basically, you need a barrier any time ordering matters. If access A needs to happen before access B, put a sync between them. -Scott