On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Andy Green <andy.gr...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 08:57 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Mans Rullgard<mans.rullg...@linaro.org>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 22 November 2011 05:14, Shilimkar, Santosh<santosh.shilim...@ti.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Mans,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Mans Rullgard<mans.rullg...@linaro.org>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> These patches fix and tweak various cache settings for the 4460
>>>>> resulting in a speed increase exceeding 10% in some tests.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mans Rullgard (5):
>>>>>  OMAP4: apply L2 cache lockdown workaround only on 4460 ES1.0
>>>>
>>>> This one is OK though the Panda were suppose to made out of es1.1 and
>>>> es1.0
>>>> was not suppose to be supported. The WA is not full proof and you
>>>> still might see
>>>> corruption with this. Hence for mainline, we have decided not to push
>>>> this
>>>> patch.
>>>
>>> Well, currently the tilt kernel applies this to all 4460 versions,
>>> twice even.  This patch makes it do the right thing on both 1.0 and
>>> 1.1.
>>>
>> I see. If it's for Linaro internal tree it's fine.
>
> Just a FYI TI LT tree is basis for customer for FOSS release from TI.
>
> What TI LT tree does for 4460 support is cobbled together and stolen from
> other trees in various states of completion, it's workable at the moment but
> any input from Mans or anyone else for making it better is super welcome.
>
>>> So keep them on by default but allow them to be turned off.  In the
>>> longer term, we should of course try to make these selectively
>>> applied at runtime whenever possible.
>>>
>> Yep. That's the idea.  On internal product kernels we do disable
>> once which are NA for a chip.
>
> Issue is that for TI LT kernels, we target 4430 and 4460 support in one
> build.  We can't statically turn off stuff that 4430 needs.
>
We know and hence in mainline tree all of them are enabled so that
both OMAP4430 and OMAP4460 works.

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