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Re: MPC8260 cache patch
>>>>> Gary Thomas writes:
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 09:29, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> Yes, I also think that it's safe in this case.
>> >
>> > I vaguely recall something about some architecture or variant (not
>> > powerpc) which had caches where, if you "just" disabled them, it would
>> > still use the cache lines that were still valid. So the invalidate was
>> > needed too. Perhaps Nick might remember the specifics? Although I also
>> > vaguely recall it was one of Jesper's ports.
>> Here's where you are making me wonder if it might be the OMAP port. Gee,
>> you would think I could remember that sort of stuff from one day to the
>> next. Sigh... I'll double check that, especially since, now that you
>> mention it, it sounds vaguely familiar to me as well.
>>
> I doubt that it would be any ARM or PowerPC port. It might have been
> SH though.
Some MIPS for sure.
--Mark