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From: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] avr32: Add simple paging support
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:10:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C80D7AC.2050206@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281595974-32279-4-git-send-email-haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>

Dear Haavard Skinnemnoen,

Am 12.08.2010 08:52, 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>

there were no changes to this patch since last submission. Applying this
should be done soon.

regards

Andreas Bie?mann

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-03 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-12  6:52 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/3] avr32: simple paging support Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-12  6:52 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] avr32: Print unrelocated PC on exception Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-09-03 11:51   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-09-03 13:19     ` Andreas Bießmann
2010-09-03 14:37   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-08-12  6:52 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/3] avr32: Use uncached() macro to get an address for SDRAM init Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-12 15:04   ` Detlev Zundel
2010-08-13  3:56     ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-13 11:01       ` Detlev Zundel
2010-08-13 12:12         ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-13 13:01           ` Detlev Zundel
2010-09-03 11:16   ` Andreas Bießmann
2010-09-03 14:37   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-08-12  6:52 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] avr32: Add simple paging support Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-09-03 11:10   ` Andreas Bießmann [this message]
2010-09-03 14:38   ` Reinhard Meyer

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