Re: cache problem

[schneider <sch...@te...>]

Ken Tyler wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Rene Brothuhn wrote:
> 
> 
>>2.4.9; checkout date: 12/September
>>
> 
> My last update was on the 17th, may be worth doing an update.
> 
> 
>>Hmm, I`m using a modular kernel, but the 53c770 are not compiled as a 
>>module, will playing a little with that.
>>
> 
> See if it's the same with a one-piece kernel.
> 
> 
>>Is it right that you use APUS with the 53c7xx.c driver on a CSPPC?
>>That means that the machnism I use to get some uncached mem is working 
>>on an APUS-604e machine. So whats wrong here?
>>
> 
> I do.  It's OK if I don't work it too hard, reading CDROMS and
> reading/writing ZIPs it will run all day but if I work it harder it on
> faster drives it eventually hangs anytime between 1 second and 1/2 an hour
> of use. I spent ages on it and came to the conclusion it is a (known)
> zorro bus arbitration problem or possibly a flaw in the CSPPC arbitration.
> 
> 
>>I don`t understand this :-(
>>
> 
> Don't know much about scripts but are the 770 scripts the same as the 710
> scripts ?
> 
> Ken.
> 



Hi,

i got the cache test running, in my opinien it seems like an alignement 
problem or hardware bug. I also changed the script_asm.pl to 770, 
because some registers are different on 710 and 8x0. Did you looked at 
the BSD driver?


Axel