Trying to enable backside on a G4

Michel Lanners mlan at cpu.lu
Tue Jul 11 08:17:25 EST 2000


Hi all,

On   9 Jul, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace:
>>I'm just unsure of the behaviour of :
>>while test 1 = $((`cat /proc/sys/kernel/l2cr | awk -F : '{print
>>$1}'`&0x00000001)); do wait; done
>
> I'd rather fix the kernel code. The set_L2CR function in the kernel is
> supposed to already handle all that work of waiting for the cache,
> invalidating, etc...

I fully agree. Just didn't have the time to do so.... there were always
more important bugs to chase ;-)

Michel

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