Recent ARM kernel doesn't detect and output Cortex-A8 cache
configuration correctly. Result is something like this in kernel's
boot messages:
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CPU: ARMv7 Processor [411fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7), cr=00c5387f
...
CPU0: D VIPT write-through cache
CPU0: cache: 768 bytes, associativity 1, 8 byte lines, 64 sets
...
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Catalin sent a patch for this to linux-arm-kernel list:
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20080704.150532.983f01ca.en.html
Result:
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CPU0: L1 I VIPT cache. Caches unified at level 2, coherent at level 3
CPU0: Level 1 cache is separate instruction and data
CPU0: I cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 4, 64 byte lines, 64 sets,
supports RA
CPU0: D cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 4, 64 byte lines, 64 sets,
supports RA WB WT
CPU0: Level 2 cache is unified
CPU0: unified cache: 262144 bytes, associativity 8, 64 byte lines, 512
sets,
supports WA RA WB WT
...
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Some people really like this and this patch is used in some private
trees, e.g. for BeagleBoard.
Unfortunately, RMK doesn't like the patch. He prefers to completely
remove 'broken' configuration output completely.
What's about applying this patch locally to OMAP git until upstream
ARM kernel has a fix/remove solution for this?
Many thanks
Dirk
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