24 Aug
2011
24 Aug
'11
8:12 p.m.
Dear Anton Staaf,
In message CAF6FioWBsjFa+QdFNHEQGO50eLoqZMc--Yt3-iYX6DWr=hcOrg@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
- get_dcache_line_size() can be simply defined as
#define get_dcache_line_size() CONFIG_SYS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE if we _really_ want to save a few bytes.
Actually I fail to understand why we would ever need get_dcache_line_size() in a boot loader.
It is required so that we can correctly allocate buffers that will be used by DMA engines to read or write data. The reason that these
No, it is definitely NOT needed for this purpose - we have been using CONFIG_SYS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE for more than a decade without problems, so I don't really understand why we now would need a new function for this?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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