Re: progress on l2cr

Here are two patches against current stable tree, the first,
l2cr-display-gom.diff, fixes the ouput of "cat /proc/sys/kernel.l2cr"
according to M Lanners' patch for G3, and according to the Motorola 7400
Users' Manual.
Tested on G4, but not G3 yet. It should be clean and harmful anyway.

The second, l2cr-cmdline-gom.diff, is a try to enable "l2cr=xx" kernel
command line option.
All is fine if you don't put the option, and hangs at boot with
something like this: l2cr=0xb5100000.
Since when I tried to kill calls to __set_L2CR in ppc_setup_l2cr()
commenting the following two lines:
_set_L2CR(0);  /* disable cache */
_set_L2CR(val);  /* enable it */
it stills hangs at the same point, I guess the way I call
ppc_setup_l2cr() is wrong. I couldn't find documentation on this, but I
figured out reading init/main.c that doing this would be sufficient,
tell me were I'm wrong :

Try my current rsync tree. I merged in some new code from PowerLogix in
the _set_L2CR() function that work around a few CPU erratas and increase
a few things.

You'll notice that when calling _set_L2CR(x) with x!=0, I always OR x
with the invalidate bit to force an invalidation. It's not necessary to
wait for the invaldation to complete inside the ppc_htab.c code however
since it's done inside the _set_L2CR() function in misc.S

Ben.


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