rework MMU support
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Mon Aug 1 12:12:29 EDT 2011
On 17:54 Mon 01 Aug , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:26:43PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This series reworks the barebox MMU support. We now use second
> > level page tables which allows us to remap the dma coherent area
> > dynamically. We don't have to map our sdram twice anymore which
> > helps us on newer systems with big memory.
> >
> > As a bonus there is no board specific MMU code anymore. All a board
> > has to do to enable MMU support via Kconfig is to register its SDRAM banks
> > at mem_initcall
> >
> > The following changes since commit b821d73607cc6387b1ee588af97a44e8eb2b4fe2:
> >
> > Merge branch 'resource' of git://uboot.jcrosoft.org/barebox into next (2011-08-01 14:10:38 +0200)
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> > git://uboot.jcrosoft.org/barebox.git mmu
> >
> > Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD (2):
> > arm: introduce arm_add_mem_device to register dram device
> > init: introduce mem, mmu and postmmu initcall
> >
> > Sascha Hauer (7):
> > ARM cache l2x0: depend on MMU
> > ARM: move armlinux_add_dram to location which is always compiled
> > ARM l2x0: make init function static inline if l2 is not available
> > ARM: pass size to dma_free_coherent
> > ARM boards: move sdram setup before mmu setup
> > ARM: rework MMU support
> > ARM boards: remove now unnecessary mmu calls
>
> merged up to 7/9. The MMU rework needs some changes to v1 which I
> haven't posted yet. It does not work correctly on armv7 as these
> processors need slightly different second level page table entries.
>
> Also, I added the appropriate KEEP directives to
> include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h to make this branch work. Would be
> good if you could give your patches at least *some* testing.
I've no armv7 availlable work fine
I test it on at91 and s3c and versatile work fine
but no mmu yet
and I compiled all ARM
Best Regards,
J.
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