Re: Afterburner and Linux

From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzm_at_uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:57:58 -0700

At 10:57 PM +0200 6/4/98, Frank Naumann wrote:
>> >The ST-RAM and some hardware adresses are cached. This is the fault.
>> Just a moment! According to Michael's mail he used a kernel, which disables
>> the whole caching of the st and tt-ram. So why has he still SCSI trouble.
>> (That leads me to the assumption, that this kernel will not run reliable,
>> though it may look nice)

The only problems I had were SCSI timeouts, and that's in no way new for
Falcon users, right? The only surprise was that high timeout rate also means
data corruption, from all I could see. At first I though that ext2 filesystems
written on other hardware were incompatible with the AB040 (bus sizing
problems?), but the filesystem written on AB040 could be read on a Mac, no
problem there.

>I wrote also: some hardware adresses.

Could you be a bit more specific?? Linux maps the hardware addresses in a
separate range in memory, as non-cacheable and serialized. How could the
dhardware registers be cached?

        Michael
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