Re: ARM L2 cache support?

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Rafal Jaworowski wrote:
>On 2010-08-27, at 07:27, KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:
>
>> What status to support for ARM L2 cache?
>> CPU core new of recent has L2 cache.  For instance, it is Cortex and
>> Marvell Sheeva.
>> My neither Sheevaplug nor Overo seem to work if L2 is not disabled now.
>> 
>> Do you know the person who is doing the activity of the L2 cache support?
>
>If this helps you can have a look at what we have implemented in
>FreeBSD for Marvell L2 cache module in Kirkwood SoC:
>http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/arm/arm/cpufunc_asm_sheeva.S

It doesn't really help, NetBSD doesn't have the extra l2cache_* functions
that are in FreeBSD.

OTOH, there isn't much point in adding calls to L2 support functions
in the VM system if manufacturers are not going to provide documentation.

Robert Swindells