We were not disabling external caches before jumping
to kernel. We were flushing all caches including
external caches and disabling caches globally in
CP15 System Control register. Apparently this is not
enough.
The bootstrap loader in Linux kernel that does decompression
enables data-caches again, flush them after use and disable
them before jumping to kernel proper. However, it's not aware
of the external caches.
Since we have left external cache enabled, external cache will
get used once caches are enabled globally, but it's not flushed
because decompressor is not aware of external caches. When it
jumps to kernel with caches disabled globally, we have stale
data in the external cache and a coherency problem.
This was breaking the boot for OMAP4 with latest mainline
kernel. The solution is to disable external caches in
cleanup_before_linux(). With this fix kernel is booting again.
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
- Add MMC raw and FAT mode boot support for OMAP
- Provide a means by which parameters passed by ROM-code
can be saved in u-boot.
- Save boot mode related information passed by OMAP4 ROM-code
and use it to determine where to load the u-boot from
- Assumes that the image has a mkimage header. Gets the
payload size and load address from this header. If the
header is not detected assume u-boot.bin as payload
Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Paulraj <s-paulraj@ti.com>
- Enable I-cache on bootup
- Enable MMU and D-cache immediately after relocation
- Do necessary initialization before enabling d-cache and MMU
- Changes to cleanup_before_linux()
- Make changes according to the new framework
Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
Replace the cache related CONFIG flags with more meaningful
names. Following are the changes:
CONFIG_L2_OFF -> CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF
CONFIG_SYS_NO_ICACHE -> CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF
CONFIG_SYS_NO_DCACHE -> CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF
Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
V2:
* Changed CONFIG_L2_OFF -> CONFIG_SYS_NO_L2CACHE
V4:
* Changed all three flags to the final names suggested as above
and accordingly changed the commit message
The purpose of this patch is to prepare for adding the OMAP4 architecture, which is Cortex A9
Cortex A8 and A9 both belong to the armv7 architecture, hence the name change.
The two architectures are similar enough that substantial code can be shared.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Paulraj <s-paulraj@ti.com>
2010-07-05 19:59:55 -04:00
Renamed from arch/arm/cpu/arm_cortexa8/cpu.c (Browse further)
