On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 01:23:53PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Hi Tom, > > This is the first batch of ARC changes for the next release. > > Here we: > 1. Significantly rework cache-related functionality. > In particular that fixes coherency problems in some corner-cases, > allows us to enable and disable caches in run-time and still > have properly running system, finally support execution from > real flash (before we used to run from DDR from the very beginning). > > 2. Remove string routines implemented in assembly. > That allows us to build and run U-Boot on wide range og ARC cores > with different configurations. I.e. whatever tuning is used on GCC's > command-line we'll get code for desired flavor of ARC. > Otherwise for each and every corner-case we would need to add ifdefs > in assembly code to accommodate missing instructions etc. > > 3. Get use of GCC's garbage collector which helps to slim-down resulting > image > quite a bit. > > 4. Also now we may disable U-Boot self-relocation for ARC if needed either > by platform or for debugging purposes.
FYI, all of the above would be really good to put into a signed tag, next time :) > P.S. Do you have an idea when RC1 is going to be cut? > We have some other pending changes and it's good to understand how much > time > we have for finalization if we want [and we do want] to still squeeze it > all > in the next release. Should be April 2nd, per the ReleaseCycle wiki page. -- Tom
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