Re: Userland instability in NetBSD 6.0.1 MacPPC

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Is there a simple way to switch off the L2 cache for testing without
> having to build kernels,

Not that I know of.  But there's a lot I don't know about macppc,
especially not-totally-ancient macppc.  cpuctl might be worth checking.

> The more I think about this, it has to be some cache-flush thing.

It does seem plausible, especially in view of my machine working fine,
with its L2 cache being reported as disabled.

Did you see my note about /dev/null?

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