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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: possible Malta 4Kc cache problem ...
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:38:36AM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> 
> Which version of the 4Kc manual are you looking at?  I'm looking
> at a very recent version of the 4Kc Software User's Manual
> (version 1.17, dated September 25, 2002), and it only shows
> Hit_Writeback_D to be invalid for *secondary and teritary*
> caches, which makes sense, since the 4KSc doesn't have any.
>

I was looking at rev 1.12, Jan 3, 2001.

Good to know that 4K family does have Hit_WRiteback_D.  However,
since it is "recommanded" instead of "required".  Shouldn't we
still use "Hit_Writeback_Inv_D" just to be on the safe side?

Jun