linux/Documentation/powerpc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 20474abda6 [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion
We had an historical confusion in the kernel between cache line
and cache block size. The former is an implementation detail of
the L1 cache which can be useful for performance optimisations,
the later is the actual size on which the cache control
instructions operate, which can be different.

For some reason, we had a weird hack reading the right property
on powermac and the wrong one on any other 64 bits (32 bits is
unaffected as it only uses the cputable for cache block size
infos at this stage).

This fixes the booting-without-of.txt documentation to mention
the right properties, and fixes the 64 bits initialization code
to look for the block size first, with a fallback to the line
size if the property is missing.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-11-08 14:15:30 +11:00
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00-INDEX Add entries to Documentation/powerpc 2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
booting-without-of.txt [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion 2007-11-08 14:15:30 +11:00
cpu_features.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt typo fixes 2007-10-20 01:34:40 +02:00
hvcs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G' 2006-10-03 22:49:15 +02:00
mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt [POWERPC] Update device tree binding for mpc5200 gpt 2007-10-21 12:42:55 -06:00
mpc52xx.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ppc_htab.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
SBC8260_memory_mapping.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
smp.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sound.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
zImage_layout.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00