OMAP3 L2/outer cache enabled in kernel (after being disabled by uBoot)?

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jan 17 14:47:24 EST 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:27:21PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Anyway, the first step is this API provided by the secure firmware.
> Since such API may need to be called before the MMU is initialised,
> Linux would need to have knowledge of the platform type early on. Having
> some platform hook (asm macro) to call early on wouldn't work with the
> single zImage configuration. Stack space is not an issue as we already
> have one for ARMv7 for D-cache flushing (XIP kernels would work but they
> aren't that many).

It _is_ a problem.  How much stack space would these undefined platform
specific functions require?  16 words?  32 words?  A page?  Where does
this memory come from?  The .data section, or are we going to stuff it
into what is supposed to be the read-only text section?



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