Re: Why flush cache in insw/outsw ?

[Paul M. <le...@li...>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:35:46AM +0900, tak...@op... wrote:
> > You may want to add a sensible definition for SH-3 as well, but I'm not
> > sure how heavily you're hitting the libata drivers.
> mmm, Because I don't have SH3 board with libata enabled, I'd like to leave it blank now.

You aren't booting off of CF or PCMCIA with pata_platform?

> How about following patch? I put them into io_generic.c near
> insw/outsw, but cache_flush.h, since these seems a kind of workaround.
> # SH3/4 compatible cache flush API may be wanted in somewhere else,
> someday, though.
> 
Yes, we can do that. It would be interesting to know if the SH-3 caches
will need this too, at the very least, SH7705 will.

Iwamatsu-san, are you able to add shmin in to your build scripts? It
would be good to get at least one SH-3 (and an SH-2) in to the nightly
builds.