On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:39:07PM +0000, Nigel Stephens wrote: > The MIPS 24K family's caches are not physically indexed, but they do > have optional h/w assist to prevent aliases in certain cache > configurations. This optional feature is indicated by the read-only AR > (alias removed) flag being set - that's bit 16 in the CP0 Config7 register. That's not a new feature in the MIPS world; the R10000 family introduced that first and Linux knows how to make use of it. So now I just need to teach c-r4k.c to check the AR bit on the 24K. Ralf