PB1176 broken in -rc1

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Aug 11 10:24:38 EDT 2011


Hi Linus,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 03:05:01PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > [    0.000000] CPU: found DTCM0 4k @ 00000000, not enabled
> > [    0.000000] CPU: moved DTCM0 4k to fffe8000, enabled
> > [    0.000000] CPU: found DTCM1 4k @ 00000000, not enabled
> > [    0.000000] CPU: moved DTCM1 4k to fffe9000, enabled
> > [    0.000000] CPU: found ITCM0 4k @ 00000000, not enabled
> > [    0.000000] CPU: moved ITCM0 4k to fffe0000, enabled
> > [    0.000000] CPU: found ITCM1 4k @ 00000000, not enabled
> > [    0.000000] CPU: moved ITCM1 4k to fffe1000, enabled
> 
> Just hijacking the thread: at one time I think I saw some ARM
> high-level schematic of a mpcore where the ARM cores actually had
> TCM in them.

Hmm, that doesn't sound right. The 11MPCore doesn't have TCMs.

> I actually spent some time adding multicore TCM support until
> I realized that the PB11MPcore actually didn't have TCM.
> So I just dropped that stuff.
> 
> But to be sure, is there a platform like that, multicore, with
> per-processor TCM?

It's a feature of the CPU rather than the platform and the 11MPCore doesn't
have TCMs.

Hope that clears things up,

Will



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