On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I'm afraid I don't have any manuals for any of the MIPS chips just 3rd > party ones SB1, RM7K and SR71000 - which is why I have some many > odd questions. :> Please feel free to grab a few from 'http://www.mips.com/Documentation/' and 'http://www.mips.com/declassified/'. ;-) I have a few excellent IDT manuals on their original CD-ROM as well. If they can't be downloaded anymore, I may put them online at my site. > Did some more research + phoning.. RM7K is definately documented to dump > the write buffer on 'sync'. The RM7K guide even has an example (7.8.5) > where it implies that sync also forces a write back of any dirty cache > lines - gah! (Hard to belive though..) If RM7K is always strongly ordered, I may code a workaround. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
