Re: Enabling L2 cache for overdrive CPUs.

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 11:31:54 EST


On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:26:27PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> Ugh. Is this for the PII overdrive for PPro socket or what?

Celerons iirc. I got a mail from someone annoyed at the
binary only module that powerleap gave him to do this.
I just disassembled it and turned it back to C.

> Seems awfully dangerous to have a __setup() clobber MSRs without
> checking the cpuid first.
> Shouldn't this be in the CPU detection/quirks code instead?
> It already contains stuff similar to this.

That is another option that could be done, yes..

        Dave

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