From: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] avr32: Add simple paging support
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:13:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C56D28D.8010301@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280750789-10359-4-git-send-email-haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Dear H?vard Skinnemoen,
I have tested the simple TLB implementation on our own hardware and it
does work with CFI driver.
Thanks a lot for introducing this, we had to wait so long ...
Am 02.08.2010 14:06, schrieb Haavard Skinnemoen:
> Use the MMU hardware to set up 1:1 mappings between physical and virtual
> addresses. This allows us to bypass the cache when accessing the flash
> without having to do any physical-to-virtual address mapping in the CFI
> driver.
>
> The virtual memory mappings are defined at compile time through a sorted
> array of virtual memory range objects. When a TLB miss exception
> happens, the exception handler does a binary search through the array
> until it finds a matching entry and loads it into the TLB. The u-boot
> image itself is covered by a fixed TLB entry which is never replaced.
>
> This makes the 'saveenv' command work again on ATNGW100 and other boards
> using the CFI driver, hopefully without breaking any rules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Bie?mann <biessmann@corscience.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 12:06 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] avr32 fixes Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-02 12:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] avr32: Add missing asm/unaligned.h header file Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-02 12:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] avr32: Print unrelocated PC on exception Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-02 12:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] avr32: Add simple paging support Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-02 14:13 ` Andreas Bießmann [this message]
2010-08-07 21:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-08-09 1:44 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-02 12:28 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] avr32 fixes Bas Mevissen
2010-08-02 12:43 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-02 15:44 ` Bas Mevissen
2010-08-02 22:00 ` Bas Mevissen
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