Re: decompress.c : Add cache support

From: Nick Krause
Date: Tue Jul 22 2014 - 13:41:55 EST


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2014-07-21 21:24 GMT-07:00 Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hey Ralf and others
>> We seem to be flushing this cache after decompressing the kernel on
>> mips. Can't we cache this?
>
> I am not sure I fully understand what you mean here. What would we be
> caching, instruction, data, both?
>
>> If anyone has any advice on how to fix this it would be great:).
>> Nick
>
> One patch that I carried locally and which works for a bunch of
> MIPS32r1 compatible platforms out there is this one, I tried to
> address some of Ralf's comment as well about the code duplication
> (maybe I can get around to resubmit it):
>
> http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1565/
> --
> Florian

Florian,
You should resubmit this patch as it seems to be correct and fix this issue.
Cheers Nick
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