• Memory partitioning on Cortex-A7

    Hello,

    I am using a quad-core Cortex-A7 (on Raspberry PI 2). I run a Linux on Core 0,1,2 and a baremetal application on Core 3. My goal is to protect the baremetal application from the rest (i.e., the linux side). Initially I thought that I can do this…

  • ARMv7 "write buffer" issue

    Note: This was originally posted on 3rd July 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    Hi All,

    I have a question about the "write buffer" for ARMv7 processor.

    Write buffer is explicitly described in TRM(tech reference manual) prior to ARMv6. E.g, how to enable…

  • [ARMv7] question about writel & barrier

    Hi Sirs,

    I got a question about the way Linux 3.18 defines the "writel()".

    In linux-3.18/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h, it describes:

    /*

    * I/O memory access primitives. Reads are ordered relative to any

    * following Normal memory access. Writes are…