Re: 2.4.19-pre2 Cyrix III SEGFAULT (Cyrix II redux?)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 16:01:06 EST

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> > But I recalled Linux 2.2 having a bug fix for broken
> > L2 cache in Cyrix II.
>
> The cache itself isn't broken. Reporting of the size of it is.

He's talking about a different bug. Some early 6x86 processors had weird
problems with cache behaviour that would sometimes break stuff.
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