Need some testing... (IT WORKS)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt mol-devel@lists.maconlinux.org
08 Feb 2003 15:31:33 +0100


On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:11, Eddie Bindt wrote:
> Samuel and others,
> 
> after some live remote debugging with benh on my machine, benh discovered 
> some wierdness that was done to L2 cache in OSX ...
> 
> A few moments later I remembered I long ago installed "PowerLogix Cache 
> Control" to set L2 cache from 6:1 to 3:1 speed in my iBook366 ...
> 
> In native OSX this works fine, but under MOL it gives the "unimplemented 
> instruction" error ...
> 
> I removed the Powerlogix stuff and now MOL --osx works fine ...
> networking, sound (a little static when a sound starts and stops) but 
> overall it looks good.

More specifically, PowerLogix is playing with cache in ways not
supported by emulation and does dcbz on ROM which failed to be
emulated.

They told me they would skip AAPL,MOL platform in their next
release.

Ben.