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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:01:25 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net>
To:        gballet@gmail.com, ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, chuckr@telenix.org
Subject:   Re: Pandora
Message-ID:  <200904141401.n3EE1P92096194@casselton.net>
In-Reply-To: <fd183dc60904140606y19cadc72t9027121e92a39f07@mail.gmail.com>

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The new Gumstix uses the Cortex OMAP processor as well.

I sent Oliver a link to the start of the ARMv6 UP/SMP cpu_throw/cpu_switch
and atomic code that is backward compatible and tested on pre-ARMv6;
obviously not yet on ARMv6.

In ARMv6 mode, the caches are not flushed on context change. ARMv6 UP
and SMP have different caches: SMP does not use the pmap_fix_cache and
the multiple KVA patch, and the ARMv6 UP and ARMv5 use a different
definition of page sharing (ARMv6 uses page coloring), therefore the flushing
circumstances change.

In the patch that I sent to him, there are still some flushes to be removed
from pmap.c. We will see; maybe ARMv5, ARMv6 UP and SMP should use a
different pmap.c file.

--Mark Tinguely



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