LPAE for outer caches functiopns (was Re: [RFC 3/6] arm: cache-l2x0: add support for Aurora L2 cache ctrl)

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Aug 13 06:44:23 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:02:50PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> On 08/10/2012 04:47 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:48:44PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >> You will find an updated version of this patch with LPAE support. I've
> >> tested with and without LPAE selected.
> 
> Just a rectification, in fact I managed to build in both case, and to run
> only without LPAE support. I didn't have the support for LPAE yet. I was
> surprised that it worked out of the box, but in fact I tested the wrong
> kernel! I realized this this morning.

Ok, please keep me updated with how you get on. I can't shake this nagging
feeling that the memory-mapped interface is restricted to 32-bit addresses,
which is why the XP has the option to treat the L2 as an inner-cache...

</speculation>

Will



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