From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:33:56 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] Please pull ARC changes In-Reply-To: <1521811432.5434.9.camel@synopsys.com> References: <1521811432.5434.9.camel@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20180323133356.GT4759@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 01:23:53PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Hi Tom, > > This is the first batch of ARC changes for the next release. > > Here we: > 1. Significantly rework cache-related functionality. > In particular that fixes coherency problems in some corner-cases, > allows us to enable and disable caches in run-time and still > have properly running system, finally support execution from > real flash (before we used to run from DDR from the very beginning). > > 2. Remove string routines implemented in assembly. > That allows us to build and run U-Boot on wide range og ARC cores > with different configurations. I.e. whatever tuning is used on GCC's > command-line we'll get code for desired flavor of ARC. > Otherwise for each and every corner-case we would need to add ifdefs > in assembly code to accommodate missing instructions etc. > > 3. Get use of GCC's garbage collector which helps to slim-down resulting image > quite a bit. > > 4. Also now we may disable U-Boot self-relocation for ARC if needed either > by platform or for debugging purposes. FYI, all of the above would be really good to put into a signed tag, next time :) > P.S. Do you have an idea when RC1 is going to be cut? > We have some other pending changes and it's good to understand how much time > we have for finalization if we want [and we do want] to still squeeze it all > in the next release. Should be April 2nd, per the ReleaseCycle wiki page. -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: