[OpenBIOS] r579 - trunk/openbios-devel/modules
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Sep 21 00:08:55 CEST 2009
>> I'm not sure what your flush_icache_range() does exactly, but at a
>
> It is not mine ;-)
"your", as in "not mine" :-)
>> 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.
Segher
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