From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPU/cache detection wrong
Date: 30 Sep 2002 17:34:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033403655.16933.20.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hegaxpp0.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com>
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 13:29, Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote:
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz stepping 04
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>
> The machine is a Comapq Evo n800c with a 1.7GHz P4-M in it, and
> according to the BIOS I've got 16kb/512Kb L1/L2-cache. Accroding to
> the 2.4.20-pre7-ac3-kernel. It's been like this at least since
> 2.4.19-pre4 or so.
Can you stick a printk in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c in the function
init_intel
Just before:
/* look up this descriptor in the table */
stick
printk("Cache info byte: %02X\n", des);
that will dump the cache info out of the CPU as the kernel scans it and
should let us find the error in the table.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-28 12:29 CPU/cache detection wrong Alexander Hoogerhuis
2002-09-30 16:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-09-30 17:43 ` Alexander Hoogerhuis
2002-09-30 22:15 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 7:21 ` Alexander Hoogerhuis
2002-10-01 11:06 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 15:31 ` Alexander Hoogerhuis
2002-10-01 17:01 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-01 1:06 David L. DeGeorge
2002-10-01 11:18 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 13:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-01 15:15 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 16:03 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-01 16:31 ` Dave Jones
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