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RE: Possible typoinhal/arm/arm9/var/current/include/hal_cache.h


On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:28, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> OK, I'll have a look at that.  So far I have avoided running any of the
> kernel tests because I have been focusing very intently on getting RedBoot
> up and running, and have ignored anything not directly related to RedBoot.
> Thus, I will feel comfortable saying at the end of the week that "I have
> ported RedBoot to the OMAP", but there is still somme work to be done to
> claim that I have ported eCos to the OMAP (most noticably, I have not done
> any work at all with interrupts, consequently, I have not done any work at
> all with the real time clock, consequently, I have not tried running any of
> the "kernel specific" tests).
> 
> Anyway, I'll look at it.  Perhaps it will run fine even if I don't have
> interrupts and the real time clock enabled.  Thanks.
> 

In the worst case, just take the code and run it via some other
technique.  It's quite easy to pull out.

> --wpd
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary D. Thomas [mailto:gary.thomas@mind.be]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:12 PM
> > To: Patrick Doyle
> > Cc: Jonathan Larmour; eCos Discussion
> > Subject: RE: [ECOS] Possible typo
> > inhal/arm/arm9/var/current/include/hal_cache.h
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:57, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> > > > > The board this was written for was never released publically,
> > >
> > > Watch this space for an announcement real soon about RedBoot
> > running just
> > > such an OMAP5910 board!
> > >
> > > > IIRC, Jesper never got the DATA cache working on that platform
> > > > anyway - maybe this is why :-)
> > >
> > > > > So I'm inclined to believe it's wrong, and a patch is welcome :-).
> > >
> > >
> > > > > If you've got the hardware you could play around! At least to verify
> > > that
> > > > > it's wrong.
> > >
> > > Hmmm... that opens up a very interesting question, how would I
> > "verify that
> > > it's wrong"?  I'll have to think about a test case on the drive
> > home tonight
> > > that would verify one cache line size vs. another.
> > >
> >
> > I just added some test code to kernel/tests/kcache2.c which is
> > supposed to be able to check this sort of thing.  You have to
> > enable it [by hand], but it might be useful.
> >
> > > > Indeed, and then please share the results!
> > > But, of course!
> > >

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