On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:53 -0700, John Bonesio wrote: > > I was thinking it might be good to have the kernel initialize these > > cache control registers in it's own start up code. Or perhaps this > > could be done in the kernel's simple bootloader. We could probably put > > this change in a Xilinx specific startup file, but this change doesn't > > seem specific to Xilinx FPGA boards. > > The kernel's wrapper would be a good place to put that I suspect. That's > the kind of thing that should be provided as a "library" function to be > optionally called by platform code. Either in the wrapper or the main > kernel platform code.
Code is already queued up for 2.6.26 to do exactly this on ppc405 virtex platforms. We can do the same thing for 440. Look at virtex405-head.S in the following patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?person=486&id=17410 Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
