Hello Ian,
On 21-07-14 22:07, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 20:47 +0200, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
Hello Siarhei,
On 18-07-14 19:09, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
This is needed to have feature parity with the normal boot mode, where the L2EN bit in the CP15 Auxiliary Control Register is set by the BROM code right from the start.
If this is not done, the Linux system ends up booted with the L2 cache disabled.
I don't know a single about the sunxi, but shouldn't linux be patched instead. The commit message seems to indicate it is not an u-boot issue.
The ACTLR may not be writeable from NS mode so it has to be setup in the bootloader before dropping to NS mode.
mmm, I guess there is something wrong with the boot sequence if the kernel itself can't access raw hw.
In any case I think these sorts of low level platform specific details are the sort of thing which the bootloader probably ought to be setting up.
No, u-boot tries not to touch anything it doesn't use and, if anything disables it after use. Hence, this seems like a kernel bug and nothing to do with u-boot. They should be independent, iow a kernel should not rely on u-boot setting thing up, that is a bug.
Regards, Jeroen