On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> Some of the tualatins have an errata which makes L2 cache sizing
> impossible. They actually report they have 0K L2 cache. By checking
> the CPU model, we can guess we have at least 256K (which is where Linux
> got that number from in your case). But this however means the 512K
> models will report as 256K too.
> To work around it, boot with cachesize=512 and all will be good.
Strange -- why not to default to 256K and override it with the value
obtained from a cache descriptor if != 0, then?
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