From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: jsun@mvista.com (Jun Sun), carlson@sibyte.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: broken RM7000 in CVS ...
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:37:25 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010115063725.C8866@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14HDwC-0005GH-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:48:50PM +0000
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:48:50PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > My understanding is that we don't have a standard way to probe for external
> > cache (L2 or L3). So this problem is not only for MIPS32 cpus.
>
> Cache is very arch specific. You don't want to know how you find L2 cache
> on a MacII for example 8)
Actually the Indy's R4600 / R5000 second level caches also call for the use
of LARTs in a while (1) loop ;-) Read the generic code had to be changed
in order to support in a sane way.
Ralf
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, carlson@sibyte.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: broken RM7000 in CVS ...
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:37:25 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010115063725.C8866@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20010115083725.Dlqq5J4_YgDw8ph9YApuz6MGkBtOr7iqnfJ6HECTaow@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14HDwC-0005GH-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:48:50PM +0000
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:48:50PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > My understanding is that we don't have a standard way to probe for external
> > cache (L2 or L3). So this problem is not only for MIPS32 cpus.
>
> Cache is very arch specific. You don't want to know how you find L2 cache
> on a MacII for example 8)
Actually the Indy's R4600 / R5000 second level caches also call for the use
of LARTs in a while (1) loop ;-) Read the generic code had to be changed
in order to support in a sane way.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-15 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-12 3:54 broken RM7000 in CVS Jun Sun
2001-01-12 7:23 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-12 7:23 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-12 18:58 ` Jun Sun
2001-01-12 19:06 ` Justin Carlson
2001-01-12 20:27 ` Jun Sun
2001-01-12 20:29 ` Justin Carlson
2001-01-12 21:39 ` Jun Sun
2001-01-12 23:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 23:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-15 8:37 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-01-15 8:37 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-12 19:42 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-12 19:42 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-15 8:42 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15 8:42 ` Ralf Baechle
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