[OpenBIOS] r579 - trunk/openbios-devel/modules

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Sep 21 00:29:12 CEST 2009


>>>> minimum it is misnamed: you need to flush the dcache for this range
>>>> to memory (dcbst is enough), do a sync, invalidate the icache  
>>>> (icbi),
>>>> do another sync, do an isync.
>>>
>>> It does exacly what you explain, see arch/ppc/qemu/start.S:
>>
>> Excellent, so it is just misnamed; it says neither what it does nor
>> what its purpose is.  Oh well.

> Patches and suggestions are welcome.

Patches?  Hahahaha.

Suggestions?  Something like "synchronise icache", I dunno.  Making up
good names is hard work.


Segher




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