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Altera_Forum
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21 years agocache issues
We've managed to get uClinux to run on the custom HW board we are testing, and have also established a 100bT connection to the board, done remote login off a LAN etc. Everything seems to be prog...
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
21 years agoI am not the uClinux expert but can tell you this: Try turning on the icache - that should be completely transparent to the sotware that is running. Adding dcache is *not* transparent.
The software that running must ensure that cache coherency is managed by: mallocing buffers as un-cachable, flushing the cache to external memory, or doing direct (cache-bypassed) IO reads and writes as necessary... I would imagine that the linux port & drivers already have taken care of this but one of the Microtronix guys can probably confirm it.