On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:12:55AM +0530, Amit Virdi wrote: > On 11/27/2013 5:44 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:24:04PM +0530, Amit Virdi wrote: >>> From: Amit VIRDI <amit.vi...@st.com> >>> >>> In the current implementation of the decompression code, the caches are >>> enabled >>> irrespective of their configuration in the deconfig. This makes setting the >>> ICACHE and DCACHE disable options from the menuconfig irrelevant. Change >>> this >>> implementation to enable caches only if specified in the defconfig. >> >> NAK. These options are provided more for ARM Ltd's validation of CPUs >> rather than for users, and it's not supposed to be used with the >> decompressor. >> > > It is perfectly true that these options are used only during CPU > validations and not in the end product. Still, it doesn't justify why > these options are not to be used with decompressor. Or alternately, why > would a user intend to disable a cache when it has been implemented > correctly and is stable? Without this change, the effect of disabling > cache is not reflected in entirety.
When doing CPU validations, the compressed image isn't used. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
