On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 16:54, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Cache line size is used by the kernel on ppc64 for things like clearing > memory (to get the stride between subsequent dcbz) or flushing the > cache :-) It's also passed on to userland. > > If it's absent from the device-tree, we default to the values in the > cputable, but if you're going to put the properties in the tree, don't > put a 0 in there. As it is, the day I make the 64 bits code common, your > DT will break unless I special case "0". > > Ben.
So, just to put this issue to rest some, I have modified my DTS to have correct values here. It was _easy_. ;-) But, a followup patch should clean up _other_, existing DTS files that have 0 there still. jdl _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
