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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: <guillaume.laures@noos.fr>, <mlan@cpu.lu>
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Subject: Re: Trying to enable backside on a G4
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:34:37 +0200
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>
>So I attached a correct (I think) user-space script called L2BS_enable.sh
>which I'm going to
>propagate on linuxppc-users, tell me what you think about. I will try to
>work on kernel space then.
>
>I'm just unsure of the behaviour of :
>while test 1 = $((`cat /proc/sys/kernel/l2cr | awk -F : '{print
>$1}'`&0x00000001)); do wait; done

I'd rather fix the kernel code. The set_L2CR function in the kernel is
supposed to already handle all that work of waiting for the cache,
invalidating, etc...

Ben.

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