[ixp1200] 1K or 2K instruction cache?

Tim Stevens tim.stevens at intec.ugent.be
Mon Mar 15 11:51:02 EST 2004


Hi Jim,

And can you tell me how we can do that? Or how we tell the compiler to 
branch to the second store?

Thanks!

Regards,

Tim


At 17:33 15/03/2004, you wrote:
>If you have the version of 1200 that contains 2k of instruction memory
>you can have upto 2k of instructions.  But the instructions are stored
>in two separate 1k areas and you need to branch between the two areas.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Stevens [mailto:tim.stevens at intec.ugent.be]
>Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:28 AM
>To: ixp1200 at lists.cs.princeton.edu
>Subject: [ixp1200] 1K or 2K instruction cache?
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>We use a RadiSys ENP-2505 board and encounter a problem concerning the
>microengine instruction cache size.
>Each time we compile the code, the compiler complains that it doesn't fit
>into the instruction memory (total size between 1K and 2K instructions),
>while our RadiSys documentation states that we have a 2K instruction
>cache...
>Does this mean that we have to set a specific compiler flag, or is one
>instruction larger than one unit in the instruction cache (meaning that a
>2K cache can only hold about 1K instructions)?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Tim
>
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