Notes for the MIPS architecture port of U-Boot Toolchains ---------- http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK ELDK < DULG < DENX http://www.emdebian.org/crosstools.html Embedded Debian -- Cross-development toolchains http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ Buildroot Known Issues ------------ * Little endian build problem If use non-ELDK toolchains, -EB will be set to CPPFLAGS. Therefore all objects will be generated in big-endian format. * Cache incoherency issue caused by do_bootelf_exec() at cmd_elf.c Cache will be disabled before entering the loaded ELF image without writing back and invalidating cache lines. This leads to cache incoherency in most cases, unless the code gets loaded after U-Boot re-initializes the cache. The more common uImage 'bootm' command does not suffer this problem. [workaround] To avoid this cache incoherency, 1) insert flush_cache(all) before calling dcache_disable(), or 2) fix dcache_disable() to do both flushing and disabling cache. * Note that Linux users need to kill dcache_disable() in do_bootelf_exec() or override do_bootelf_exec() not to disable I-/D-caches, because most Linux/MIPS ports don't re-enable caches after entering kernel_entry. TODOs ----- * Probe CPU types, I-/D-cache and TLB size etc. automatically * Secondary cache support missing * Centralize the link directive files * Initialize TLB entries redardless of their use * R2000/R3000 class parts are not supported * Limited testing across different MIPS variants * Due to cache initialization issues, the DRAM on board must be initialized in board specific assembler language before the cache init code is run -- that is, initialize the DRAM in lowlevel_init().