2 Notes for the MIPS architecture port of U-Boot
7 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK
10 http://www.emdebian.org/crosstools.html
11 Embedded Debian -- Cross-development toolchains
13 http://buildroot.uclibc.org/
19 * Cache incoherency issue caused by do_bootelf_exec() at cmd_elf.c
21 Cache will be disabled before entering the loaded ELF image without
22 writing back and invalidating cache lines. This leads to cache
23 incoherency in most cases, unless the code gets loaded after U-Boot
24 re-initializes the cache. The more common uImage 'bootm' command does
25 not suffer this problem.
27 [workaround] To avoid this cache incoherency,
28 1) insert flush_cache(all) before calling dcache_disable(), or
29 2) fix dcache_disable() to do both flushing and disabling cache.
31 * Note that Linux users need to kill dcache_disable() in do_bootelf_exec()
32 or override do_bootelf_exec() not to disable I-/D-caches, because most
33 Linux/MIPS ports don't re-enable caches after entering kernel_entry.
38 * Probe CPU types, I-/D-cache and TLB size etc. automatically
40 * Secondary cache support missing
42 * Initialize TLB entries redardless of their use
44 * R2000/R3000 class parts are not supported
46 * Limited testing across different MIPS variants
48 * Due to cache initialization issues, the DRAM on board must be
49 initialized in board specific assembler language before the cache init
50 code is run -- that is, initialize the DRAM in lowlevel_init().
52 * centralize/share more CPU code of MIPS32, MIPS64 and XBurst