19 Jul
2011
19 Jul
'11
7:59 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 06:46:39PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:13:37PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
The only reason steps are ever used is for AC'97 devices which don't use the generic cache code as they're pretty much obsolete so the framework support is mostly just carried around as legacy. The step size is used in the cache display code which does use it. If someone was interested enough to convert AC'97 over that'd be nice.
I am a bit confused now: Do you want to retire the step size in the long run? Then my sgtl-patch might be the right approach after all.
Err, no. I'm saying there's no current use of step size in the soc-cache code because no modern hardware has any need for it.