Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: 1.5.2, KFQSA & KA640]
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Michael Schneider <ms@silke.rt.schwaben.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/30/2001 22:33:51
Hmmm, yep, that could be...
I'll move the KFQSA around a bit, closer to the CPU. Maybe it helps.
Faint hope: there are no jumpers on the controller for this?
ms
Anders Magnusson wrote:
>
> >
> > Oh, i forgott:
> >
> > With cache disabled, it runs for days without problems.
> > I currently compile a kernel with D-cache disabled and I-Cache enabled.
> > If my theory (uncontrolled cacheing of controller status data) is right,
> > this could help...
> >
> Actually, this seems really strange. The cache on VAXen cannot be flushed
> or invalidated or so, it just has a snoop cache, so the only thing that
> can be done with the CPU cache is to turn it on or off.
> It seems more likely that some cache invalid line in your Q-bus is
> broken, that could cause cache-related problems.
>
> -- Ragge
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