On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:26:33 +0200
"Konrad Eisele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 12.04.05 21:28:47:
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:50:54 +0200
> > "Konrad Eisele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > I trying to get sparc32-smp run on a Leon3 sparc,
> > > it uses a  virtually indexed/tagged cache. Is it possible
> > > to run smp on such a processor?
> > 
> > Yes, it's just painful.  Model your cache flushing on the
> > sun4c code.
> > -
> 
> It's difficult to understand how smp works when cache coherency isn't
> done by hardware. 

Oh nevermind, yes that is next to impossible.  If the cpus aren't
doing any cache coherency protocol on the system bus, you're basically
out of luck.

I forgot that physical indexing was necessary for a cache coherency
protocol since the system bus works with physical addresses.
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