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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/8] SPL: Port SPL framework to powerpc
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:36:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506D3C82.7080204@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349208536.1805.3@snotra>

On 10/02/2012 10:08 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>>> +void __noreturn jump_to_image_linux(void *arg)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	debug("Entering kernel arg pointer: 0x%p\n", arg);
>>>> +	typedef void (*image_entry_arg_t)(void *, ulong r4, ulong r5,
>>>> ulong r6,
>>>> +					  ulong r7, ulong r8, ulong r9)
>>>> +		__attribute__ ((noreturn));
>>>> +	image_entry_arg_t image_entry =
>>>> +		(image_entry_arg_t)spl_image.entry_point;
>>>> +
>>>> +	image_entry(arg, 0, 0, EPAPR_MAGIC, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ, 0, 0);
>>>> +}
>>>
>>> At what point does the image get cache-flushed?
>>
>> Not at all right now. MPC5200 has dcache disabled, at least in the  
>> SPL.
>> Other PowerPC architectures might add a cache flush here if needed at
>> some time. Okay?
> 
> Or they might forget to do so and have weird bugs.
> 
> Why not just call flush_cache() on the image now?  Non-SPL does this in  
> common code, not even PPC-specific.

Okay, probably better to add this code now. But shouldn't we add this
code to the common SPL framework code then? Right before calling
jump_to_image_linux()?

Tom? Should I prepare a patch adding this cache flushing to
common/spl/spl.c?

Thanks,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-04  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-26  9:01 [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/8] SPL: Port SPL framework to powerpc Stefan Roese
2012-09-26  9:01 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/8] powerpc: Extract EPAPR_MAGIC constants into processor.h Stefan Roese
2012-09-26  9:01 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/8] SPL: Port SPL framework to powerpc Stefan Roese
2012-09-28 23:13   ` Scott Wood
2012-09-28 23:32     ` Tom Rini
2012-10-02 10:20     ` Stefan Roese
2012-10-02 20:08       ` Scott Wood
2012-10-04  7:36         ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2012-10-04 17:14           ` Scott Wood
2012-10-05 13:15             ` Stefan Roese
2012-10-05 15:22               ` Tom Rini
2012-10-05 16:05                 ` Scott Wood
2012-10-05 17:03                 ` Stefan Roese
2012-10-05 17:33                   ` Tom Rini
2012-09-26  9:01 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 3/8] env: Extract getenv_f() into separate source file Stefan Roese
2012-09-26 11:07   ` Stefan Roese
2012-09-26  9:01 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 4/8] mpc5200: Add SPL support Stefan Roese

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