On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Michael Wildpaner wrote:
>
> trying to boot any 2.4.x kernel on a Tsunami DP264 alpha with dual EV67,
> we found the following problems:
>
> CPU misdetection:
>
> On our machine the cpu->type field contains 0x80000000B
> (= 2^35 + 11) instead of 0xB (= hwrpb.h: #define EV67_CPU 11).
>
> The spurious high bit leads to false/default values for
> on_chip_cache in smp.c:smp_tune_scheduling.
>...
>+/* mask for cpu->type (arbitrary assumption based on #define's in hwrpb.h) */
>+#define CPU_TYPE_MASK 0xFFFFFF
>...
>- switch (cpu->type)
>+ switch (cpu->type & CPU_TYPE_MASK)
The Alpha Architecture Reference Manual describes the PROCESSOR TYPE field
of the per-CPU slot HWRPB information, as:
bits interpretation
---- --------------
63-32 minor type
31-0 major type
so the above patch should have CPU_TYPE_MASK as 0xffffffff (optimistic :-);
or you could just:
switch ((unsigned int) cpu->type)
like the /proc/cpuinfo printing code in setup.c does.
The "minor type" is usually a reference to the "pass" number of the chip,
and can be ignored.
--Jay++
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