Re: 2.4.19-pre2 Cyrix III SEGFAULT (Cyrix II redux?)

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 14:42:28 EST


On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:07:05AM -0800, S W wrote:
> But I recalled Linux 2.2 having a bug fix for broken
> L2 cache in Cyrix II.
 
 The cache itself isn't broken. Reporting of the size of it is.
 
> So, it got me thinking again...
> (did Cyrix fix this L2 cache in certain subsequential
> core?)

 The bug is potentially in all cores with cpuid 670->68F
 If you have it, and you're not running a kernel with the
 fix you'll see you have a 16MB cache. If you run a kernel
 with the fix, you'll have the correct size (64KB)
 
> Does anyone recall where exactly are the Cyrix II L2
> cache bug fix in the kernelso that I can experiement
> them toward the Cyrix III?

 arch/i386/kernel/setup.c display_cacheinfo()

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