diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
index 5d71eca415759c1eb69910b07cfaeadfb09d725a..8e6427a50916aa8ebe65f2fc0bf1a4e2a5b38251 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static inline int __cpu_has_fpu(void)
 	return ((cpu_get_fpu_id() & 0xff00) != FPIR_IMP_NONE);
 }
 
-#define R4K_OPTS (MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_4KEX | MIPS_CPU_4KTLB \
+#define R4K_OPTS (MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_4KEX | MIPS_CPU_4K_CACHE \
 		| MIPS_CPU_COUNTER)
 
 static inline void cpu_probe_legacy(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_legacy(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 	case PRID_IMP_R2000:
 		c->cputype = CPU_R2000;
 		c->isa_level = MIPS_CPU_ISA_I;
-		c->options = MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_NOFPUEX;
+		c->options = MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_3K_CACHE |
+		             MIPS_CPU_NOFPUEX;
 		if (__cpu_has_fpu())
 			c->options |= MIPS_CPU_FPU;
 		c->tlbsize = 64;
@@ -214,7 +215,8 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_legacy(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 		else
 			c->cputype = CPU_R3000;
 		c->isa_level = MIPS_CPU_ISA_I;
-		c->options = MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_NOFPUEX;
+		c->options = MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_3K_CACHE |
+		             MIPS_CPU_NOFPUEX;
 		if (__cpu_has_fpu())
 			c->options |= MIPS_CPU_FPU;
 		c->tlbsize = 64;
@@ -297,7 +299,7 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_legacy(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 	#endif
 	case PRID_IMP_TX39:
 		c->isa_level = MIPS_CPU_ISA_I;
-		c->options = MIPS_CPU_TLB;
+		c->options = MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_TX39_CACHE;
 
 		if ((c->processor_id & 0xf0) == (PRID_REV_TX3927 & 0xf0)) {
 			c->cputype = CPU_TX3927;
@@ -441,7 +443,7 @@ static inline unsigned int decode_config0(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 	config0 = read_c0_config();
 
 	if (((config0 & MIPS_CONF_MT) >> 7) == 1)
-		c->options |= MIPS_CPU_TLB | MIPS_CPU_4KTLB;
+		c->options |= MIPS_CPU_TLB;
 	isa = (config0 & MIPS_CONF_AT) >> 13;
 	switch (isa) {
 	case 0:
@@ -516,8 +518,8 @@ static inline unsigned int decode_config3(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 static inline void decode_configs(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 {
 	/* MIPS32 or MIPS64 compliant CPU.  */
-	c->options = MIPS_CPU_4KEX | MIPS_CPU_COUNTER | MIPS_CPU_DIVEC |
-		     MIPS_CPU_LLSC | MIPS_CPU_MCHECK;
+	c->options = MIPS_CPU_4KEX | MIPS_CPU_4K_CACHE | MIPS_CPU_COUNTER |
+	             MIPS_CPU_DIVEC | MIPS_CPU_LLSC | MIPS_CPU_MCHECK;
 
 	c->scache.flags = MIPS_CACHE_NOT_PRESENT;
 
@@ -603,6 +605,15 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_alchemy(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 static inline void cpu_probe_sibyte(struct cpuinfo_mips *c)
 {
 	decode_configs(c);
+
+	/*
+	 * For historical reasons the SB1 comes with it's own variant of
+	 * cache code which eventually will be folded into c-r4k.c.  Until
+	 * then we pretend it's got it's own cache architecture.
+	 */
+	c->options &= MIPS_CPU_4K_CACHE;
+	c->options |= MIPS_CPU_SB1_CACHE;
+
 	switch (c->processor_id & 0xff00) {
 	case PRID_IMP_SB1:
 		c->cputype = CPU_SB1;
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-r3k.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-r3k.c
index 03492a5c21f15c6bb9fb1dfda0b72503f360cf3a..27f4fa25e8c951fcd41ee3929a2bea0569cf84db 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/c-r3k.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-r3k.c
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static void r3k_dma_cache_wback_inv(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)
 	r3k_flush_dcache_range(start, start + size);
 }
 
-void __init ld_mmu_r23000(void)
+void __init r3k_cache_init(void)
 {
 	extern void build_clear_page(void);
 	extern void build_copy_page(void);
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
index aa87ae55217081a6fbdc0891d110c8270e74cd01..31f080b5f44c15a3728be360a0aeda9dd2bbbb80 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ static inline void coherency_setup(void)
 	}
 }
 
-void __init ld_mmu_r4xx0(void)
+void __init r4k_cache_init(void)
 {
 	extern void build_clear_page(void);
 	extern void build_copy_page(void);
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-sb1.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-sb1.c
index d183dbced68733db7b8802d3aebffa452490ce7a..70d1ab30f7afe99d460c31735b1a7889579bfaea 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/c-sb1.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-sb1.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ static __init void probe_cache_sizes(void)
  * memory management function pointers, as well as initialize
  * the caches and tlbs
  */
-void ld_mmu_sb1(void)
+void sb1_cache_init(void)
 {
 	extern char except_vec2_sb1;
 	extern char handle_vec2_sb1;
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-tx39.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-tx39.c
index c3ba81dab31d496216fcdd58f662e14ee8ea5d08..0a97a9434ebacf0f45ded71f676f280a2cf58694 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/c-tx39.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-tx39.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static __init void tx39_probe_cache(void)
 	}
 }
 
-void __init ld_mmu_tx39(void)
+void __init tx39_cache_init(void)
 {
 	extern void build_clear_page(void);
 	extern void build_copy_page(void);
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
index 172293b5839090db53f8399004e28497e70ff9ed..611b48dde737825cbd8ed950798a12036b236f79 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
@@ -104,58 +104,48 @@ void __update_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	}
 }
 
-extern void ld_mmu_r23000(void);
-extern void ld_mmu_r4xx0(void);
-extern void ld_mmu_tx39(void);
-extern void ld_mmu_r6000(void);
-extern void ld_mmu_tfp(void);
-extern void ld_mmu_andes(void);
-extern void ld_mmu_sb1(void);
+#define __weak __attribute__((weak))
+
+static char cache_panic[] __initdata = "Yeee, unsupported cache architecture.";
 
 void __init cpu_cache_init(void)
 {
-	if (cpu_has_4ktlb) {
-#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_R4X00)  || defined(CONFIG_CPU_VR41XX) || \
-    defined(CONFIG_CPU_R4300)  || defined(CONFIG_CPU_R5000)  || \
-    defined(CONFIG_CPU_NEVADA) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_R5432)  || \
-    defined(CONFIG_CPU_R5500)  || defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R1) || \
-    defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPS64_R1) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_TX49XX) || \
-    defined(CONFIG_CPU_RM7000) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_RM9000)
-		ld_mmu_r4xx0();
-#endif
-	} else switch (current_cpu_data.cputype) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_R3000
-	case CPU_R2000:
-	case CPU_R3000:
-	case CPU_R3000A:
-	case CPU_R3081E:
-		ld_mmu_r23000();
-		break;
-#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_TX39XX
-	case CPU_TX3912:
-	case CPU_TX3922:
-	case CPU_TX3927:
-		ld_mmu_tx39();
-		break;
-#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_R10000
-	case CPU_R10000:
-	case CPU_R12000:
-		ld_mmu_r4xx0();
-		break;
-#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SB1
-	case CPU_SB1:
-		ld_mmu_sb1();
-		break;
-#endif
-
-	case CPU_R8000:
-		panic("R8000 is unsupported");
-		break;
-
-	default:
-		panic("Yeee, unsupported cache architecture.");
+	if (cpu_has_3k_cache) {
+		extern void __weak r3k_cache_init(void);
+
+		r3k_cache_init();
+		return;
+	}
+	if (cpu_has_6k_cache) {
+		extern void __weak r6k_cache_init(void);
+
+		r6k_cache_init();
+		return;
 	}
+	if (cpu_has_4k_cache) {
+		extern void __weak r4k_cache_init(void);
+
+		r4k_cache_init();
+		return;
+	}
+	if (cpu_has_8k_cache) {
+		extern void __weak r8k_cache_init(void);
+
+		r8k_cache_init();
+		return;
+	}
+	if (cpu_has_tx39_cache) {
+		extern void __weak tx39_cache_init(void);
+
+		tx39_cache_init();
+		return;
+	}
+	if (cpu_has_sb1_cache) {
+		extern void __weak sb1_cache_init(void);
+
+		sb1_cache_init();
+		return;
+	}
+
+	panic(cache_panic);
 }
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/cpu-features.h b/include/asm-mips/cpu-features.h
index 698c21125a5c6ee92abe6594aeff85fde8ed6036..03627cfb3e45f17f011731ad5babe0a12450595b 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/cpu-features.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/cpu-features.h
@@ -25,8 +25,19 @@
 #ifndef cpu_has_4kex
 #define cpu_has_4kex		(cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_4KEX)
 #endif
-#ifndef cpu_has_4ktlb
-#define cpu_has_4ktlb		(cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_4KTLB)
+#ifndef cpu_has_3k_cache
+#define cpu_has_3k_cache	(cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_3K_CACHE)
+#endif
+#define cpu_has_6k_cache	0
+#define cpu_has_8k_cache	0
+#ifndef cpu_has_4k_cache
+#define cpu_has_4k_cache	(cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_4K_CACHE)
+#endif
+#ifndef cpu_has_tx39_cache
+#define cpu_has_tx39_cache	(cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_TX39_CACHE)
+#endif
+#ifndef cpu_has_sb1_cache
+#define cpu_has_sb1_cache	(cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_SB1_CACHE)
 #endif
 #ifndef cpu_has_fpu
 #define cpu_has_fpu		(cpu_data[0].options & MIPS_CPU_FPU)
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/cpu.h b/include/asm-mips/cpu.h
index 2e8b5a48b99fc6eec3abb6245330096b28d6e0c0..46b2a8dc2ee0fc506e09edb5055c8692e3b87f51 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/cpu.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/cpu.h
@@ -217,25 +217,27 @@
  * CPU Option encodings
  */
 #define MIPS_CPU_TLB		0x00000001 /* CPU has TLB */
-/* Leave a spare bit for variant MMU types... */
-#define MIPS_CPU_4KEX		0x00000004 /* "R4K" exception model */
-#define MIPS_CPU_4KTLB		0x00000008 /* "R4K" TLB handler */
-#define MIPS_CPU_FPU		0x00000010 /* CPU has FPU */
-#define MIPS_CPU_32FPR		0x00000020 /* 32 dbl. prec. FP registers */
-#define MIPS_CPU_COUNTER	0x00000040 /* Cycle count/compare */
-#define MIPS_CPU_WATCH		0x00000080 /* watchpoint registers */
-#define MIPS_CPU_DIVEC		0x00000200 /* dedicated interrupt vector */
-#define MIPS_CPU_VCE		0x00000400 /* virt. coherence conflict possible */
-#define MIPS_CPU_CACHE_CDEX_P	0x00000800 /* Create_Dirty_Exclusive CACHE op */
-#define MIPS_CPU_CACHE_CDEX_S	0x00001000 /* ... same for seconary cache ... */
-#define MIPS_CPU_MCHECK		0x00002000 /* Machine check exception */
-#define MIPS_CPU_EJTAG		0x00004000 /* EJTAG exception */
-#define MIPS_CPU_NOFPUEX	0x00008000 /* no FPU exception */
-#define MIPS_CPU_LLSC		0x00010000 /* CPU has ll/sc instructions */
-#define MIPS_CPU_SUBSET_CACHES	0x00020000 /* P-cache subset enforced */
-#define MIPS_CPU_PREFETCH	0x00040000 /* CPU has usable prefetch */
-#define MIPS_CPU_VINT		0x00080000 /* CPU supports MIPSR2 vectored interrupts */
-#define MIPS_CPU_VEIC		0x00100000 /* CPU supports MIPSR2 external interrupt controller mode */
+#define MIPS_CPU_4KEX		0x00000002 /* "R4K" exception model */
+#define MIPS_CPU_3K_CACHE	0x00000004 /* R3000-style caches */
+#define MIPS_CPU_4K_CACHE	0x00000008 /* R4000-style caches */
+#define MIPS_CPU_TX39_CACHE	0x00000010 /* TX3900-style caches */
+#define MIPS_CPU_SB1_CACHE	0x00000020 /* SB1-style caches */
+#define MIPS_CPU_FPU		0x00000040 /* CPU has FPU */
+#define MIPS_CPU_32FPR		0x00000080 /* 32 dbl. prec. FP registers */
+#define MIPS_CPU_COUNTER	0x00000100 /* Cycle count/compare */
+#define MIPS_CPU_WATCH		0x00000200 /* watchpoint registers */
+#define MIPS_CPU_DIVEC		0x00000400 /* dedicated interrupt vector */
+#define MIPS_CPU_VCE		0x00000800 /* virt. coherence conflict possible */
+#define MIPS_CPU_CACHE_CDEX_P	0x00001000 /* Create_Dirty_Exclusive CACHE op */
+#define MIPS_CPU_CACHE_CDEX_S	0x00002000 /* ... same for seconary cache ... */
+#define MIPS_CPU_MCHECK		0x00004000 /* Machine check exception */
+#define MIPS_CPU_EJTAG		0x00008000 /* EJTAG exception */
+#define MIPS_CPU_NOFPUEX	0x00010000 /* no FPU exception */
+#define MIPS_CPU_LLSC		0x00020000 /* CPU has ll/sc instructions */
+#define MIPS_CPU_SUBSET_CACHES	0x00040000 /* P-cache subset enforced */
+#define MIPS_CPU_PREFETCH	0x00080000 /* CPU has usable prefetch */
+#define MIPS_CPU_VINT		0x00100000 /* CPU supports MIPSR2 vectored interrupts */
+#define MIPS_CPU_VEIC		0x00200000 /* CPU supports MIPSR2 external interrupt controller mode */
 
 /*
  * CPU ASE encodings
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/mach-ip22/cpu-feature-overrides.h b/include/asm-mips/mach-ip22/cpu-feature-overrides.h
index ac71b4d6510afba4a2ec8bb79f365b2a61b360e6..ab97146681771a852eedd0643ab1e5af59bc92bb 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/mach-ip22/cpu-feature-overrides.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/mach-ip22/cpu-feature-overrides.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  */
 #define cpu_has_tlb		1
 #define cpu_has_4kex		1
-#define cpu_has_4ktlb		1
+#define cpu_has_4kcache		1
 #define cpu_has_fpu		1
 #define cpu_has_32fpr		1
 #define cpu_has_counter		1
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/mach-mips/cpu-feature-overrides.h b/include/asm-mips/mach-mips/cpu-feature-overrides.h
index 98927f8b5f6d859b61dc4f2a1522d43c8413e225..5c5edbf9370710173f8291c1923c6bbf40516b67 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/mach-mips/cpu-feature-overrides.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/mach-mips/cpu-feature-overrides.h
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R1
 #define cpu_has_tlb		1
 #define cpu_has_4kex		1
-#define cpu_has_4ktlb		1
+#define cpu_has_4kcache		1
 /* #define cpu_has_fpu		? */
 /* #define cpu_has_32fpr	? */
 #define cpu_has_counter		1
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_MIPS64_R1
 #define cpu_has_tlb		1
 #define cpu_has_4kex		1
-#define cpu_has_4ktlb		1
+#define cpu_has_4kcache		1
 /* #define cpu_has_fpu		? */
 /* #define cpu_has_32fpr	? */
 #define cpu_has_counter		1
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/mach-rm200/cpu-feature-overrides.h b/include/asm-mips/mach-rm200/cpu-feature-overrides.h
index 9b2a405246794623fe6679f1547e845cbfc62634..79f9b064c864af2b4b82f5db86afa82a57902933 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/mach-rm200/cpu-feature-overrides.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/mach-rm200/cpu-feature-overrides.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 #define cpu_has_tlb		1
 #define cpu_has_4kex		1
-#define cpu_has_4ktlb		1
+#define cpu_has_4kcache		1
 #define cpu_has_fpu		1
 #define cpu_has_32fpr		1
 #define cpu_has_counter		1
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/mach-sim/cpu-feature-overrides.h b/include/asm-mips/mach-sim/cpu-feature-overrides.h
index 09457217a57d0a324db3d9fe034841f7875bfaa8..cadbe8eda79c540e9fd0c555c4201a16f98ce007 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/mach-sim/cpu-feature-overrides.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/mach-sim/cpu-feature-overrides.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32
 #define cpu_has_tlb		1
 #define cpu_has_4kex		1
-#define cpu_has_4ktlb		1
+#define cpu_has_4kcache		1
 #define cpu_has_fpu		0
 /* #define cpu_has_32fpr	? */
 #define cpu_has_counter		1
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_MIPS64
 #define cpu_has_tlb		1
 #define cpu_has_4kex		1
-#define cpu_has_4ktlb		1
+#define cpu_has_4kcache		1
 /* #define cpu_has_fpu		? */
 /* #define cpu_has_32fpr	? */
 #define cpu_has_counter		1