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@@ -4007,6 +4007,25 @@ Configuration Settings: boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START). +- CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY: + Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be + typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped + uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would + otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For + some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the + cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed + are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding + cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e. + if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the + size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of + one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has + written to another region in the same cache-line. This can + happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for + buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g. + 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes). + + Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present. + - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN: Normally compressed uImages are limited to an uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough, |
