From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (pneumatic-tube.sgi.com [204.94.214.22]) by lara.stud.fh-heilbronn.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA31697 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:48:11 +0200 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id OAA3704443; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:45:12 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA67935 for linux-list; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA38280 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:41:09 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) Received: from mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.64.1]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id OAA08862 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:40:54 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) Received: from lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de (cacc-26.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.131.26]) by mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA20609 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:40:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from ralf@localhost) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00836; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:39:50 +0200 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:39:50 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Andrew Linfoot Cc: Ulf Carlsson , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: File corruption Message-ID: <19990628123950.B735@uni-koblenz.de> References: <19990622032859.B6955@thepuffingroup.com> <19990622152145.A1059@uni-koblenz.de> <19990623014923.A8953@thepuffingroup.com> <19990625002853.D17220@uni-koblenz.de> <002701bebf17$cd9e4fd0$0a02030a@snafu> <19990625185906.A9050@thepuffingroup.com> <001901bebf2d$e1951530$0a02030a@snafu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: <001901bebf2d$e1951530$0a02030a@snafu>; from Andrew Linfoot on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 06:11:52PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 06:11:52PM +0100, Andrew Linfoot wrote: > CPU: MIPS-R4400 FPU ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE This is what the firmware detected. > Loading R4000 MMU routines. This will always say R4000 if it's a R4000 class CPU. > CPU revision is: 00000450 > Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes) > Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes) > Secondary cache sized at 1024K linesize 128 Which says that you have an R4400SC V5.0. > an interesting point here is that /proc/cpuinfo tells me i only have an > r4000! Good spotting, the CPU detection code has a bug causes only V4 CPUs to be detected as R4400. The difference is just cosmetics; R4000 and R4400 are almost the same. Especially it's unrelated to the file corruption problem. Ralf