From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Nelson Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:55:39 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] net: fec_mxc: allow use with cache enabled In-Reply-To: <201203051639.57986.marex@denx.de> References: <1330729572-12642-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> <201203050249.33765.marex@denx.de> <4F54C31A.1050701@boundarydevices.com> <201203051639.57986.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <4F54E1FB.4090000@boundarydevices.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 03/05/2012 08:39 AM, Marek Vasut wrote: > Dear Eric Nelson, > >> On 03/04/2012 06:49 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: >>>> On 03/02/2012 04:39 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: >>>>>> + * Invalidate data cache over the buffer >>>>>> + */ >>>>>> + addr = (uint32_t)frame; >>>>>> + size = roundup(frame_length, > CONFIG_FEC_DATA_ALIGNMENT); >>>>>> + invalidate_dcache_range(addr, addr + size); >>>>> >>>>> DTTO here, frame length might not be aligned properly, or will it be? >>>>> Network stack must be properly analyzed here. >>>> >>>> The hardware won't return an unaligned value here, so this should be >>>> good. >>> >>> Are you sure? You can't receive frame aligned to 8 bytes boundary? >> >> Unless I'm missing something, received packet start addresses are defined >> by the driver in fec_rbd_init(), the code just modified to use memalign, >> so we're good here. > > Ok, that's good then. I'll skim through this driver one more time tonight and > see what comes out from it. > Thanks. I just sent V2.