Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Quark: Enable correct cache size/type reporting

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Sep 29 2014 - 09:40:40 EST


On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:06:12AM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Quark X1000 lacks cpuid(4). It has cpuid(2) but returns no cache
> descriptors we can work with i.e. cpuid(2) returns
> eax=0x00000001 ebx=0x00000000 ecx=0x00000000 edx=0x00000000
>
> Quark X1000 contains a 16k 4-way set associative unified L1 cache
> with 256 sets
>
> This patch emulates cpuid(4) in a similar way to other x86
> processors like AMDs which don't support cpuid(4). The Quark code
> is based on the existing AMD code.

This looks like it would work, but I wonder if it would be a lot
simpler to do something like what we do in centaur_size_cache()
which is the other case I recall where we had to override
the CPUs definition of cache size.

Dave

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