RE: MPC8260 cache patch

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 09:29, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> Yes, I also think that it's safe in this case.
> >
> > I vaguely recall something about some architecture or variant (not
> > powerpc) which had caches where, if you "just" disabled them, it would
> > still use the cache lines that were still valid. So the invalidate was
> > needed too. Perhaps Nick might remember the specifics? Although I also
> > vaguely recall it was one of Jesper's ports.
> Here's where you are making me wonder if it might be the OMAP port.  Gee,
> you would think I could remember that sort of stuff from one day to the
> next.  Sigh... I'll double check that, especially since, now that you
> mention it, it sounds vaguely familiar to me as well.
> 

I doubt that it would be any ARM or PowerPC port.  It might have been
SH though.

> I guess I've got some cache problems of my own. :-)  Gary, we once discussed
> ugrading to the new 2.0 brains, have you heard anything about them lately?
> I've got two newer model Patricks in development right now, but they are
> only 2.5 years and 5 months old, so I think it will be while before I can
> depend on them for support.
> 

Even then, don't count on it!  My replacements are now 21,17 and 14 and
I doubt if I'll ever be able to count on them to help my ailing gray
cells!

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