From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 00:40:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20429 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20411; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01793; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:39:47 +0100 (CET) To: "Fred L. Templin" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: L2 cache problems (??) on ThinkPad 560E In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:37:23 PST." <199803181837.KAA02717@grayling.erg.sri.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:39:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1791.890296787@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >But, are there any other low-level system primitives I might >need to use to either flush the cache or avoid caching alltogether? Finally, >I may be making a dangerous leap of faith here in assuming that caching is >at the heart of the issue. Can anyone think of another scenario which might >be causing the problems I'm seeing? pick up the tech-man from www.intel.com, dump the registers and see what it does to the area of memory you're using. I have a 560' here which works fine with a NE2000 (Infomover) card, but that doesn't prove much in this context of course... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message