From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:20:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:20:07 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:31492 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:19:58 -0400 Subject: Re: Missing cache flush. To: kira@linuxgrrls.org (kira brown) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:16:33 +0100 (BST) Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse), davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller), cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood), jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik), bjornw@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: from "kira brown" at Jun 05, 2001 10:29:16 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 3. Buggy implementations like the Cyrix 486es that don't properly maintain > cache coherency. The early Cyrix CPUs (and some 1.x rev 6x86 cpus I believe too) arent supported and dont work. The problem is best corrected with a hammer and a visit to ebay