This is the mail archive of the
ecos-patches@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the eCos project.
Re: Changed HAL_ICACHE_LINE_SIZE and HAL_DCACHE_LINE_SIZE in ARM9HAL
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Patrick Doyle <wpd at delcomsys dot com>
- Cc: eCos patches <ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 08 Jan 2003 11:51:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: Changed HAL_ICACHE_LINE_SIZE and HAL_DCACHE_LINE_SIZE in ARM9HAL
- References: <NFBBJAJICAKJPMMKDAGBCEGIDIAA.wpd@delcomsys.com>
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:16, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> Here are my changes. I didn't see that kcache2 tested anything related to
> the line size for the ICACHE (which is what I was going to think about
> testing on my drive home last night -- but I forgot), so, for now I'll just
> assume that if the documentation was correct for the DCACHE line size, it
> must be correct for the ICACHE line size. (Don't you just _love_ that word
> "assume"). Anyway, this is what I will be running with here, so if I do see
> any problems, I'll fix them and post the new changes.
>
Did you forget the patch ?
> For the record, kcache2 failed the two tests that it ran with the DCACHE
> line size set to 32 and it now passes them (with the line size set to 16).
Good - that means my test was worthwhile :-) It was really designed
to catch just such a misconfiguration.
--
------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Thomas |
MLB Associates | Consulting for the
+1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world
http://www.mlbassoc.com/ |
email: <gary@mlbassoc.com> |
gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc
------------------------------------------------------------