Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] MIPS: Honor L2 bypass bit

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 08:05:42PM -0700, Kevin Cernekee wrote:

> On many of the newer MIPS32 cores, CP0 CONFIG2 bit 12 (L2B) indicates
> that the L2 cache is disabled and therefore Linux should not attempt
> to use it.

I did a bit of research in the meantime.  Turns out that some MIPS
customers are using their own L2 cache controller.  That means a simple
check by the CPU PrID is not sufficient and we will need some sort of
platform-specific probe, sigh.

I've moved all the code your patch adds to a separate function and added
a comment so at least people working on platforms with different L2
conntrollers will have a small chance of figuring out what mine blew up
under their feet.

  Ralf