Hi Yang, The question is really of high grounds !!, I'm sure most of the newbies like will be unaware of how to manipulate the MSR, it would be of more help and a good learning to us if u can explain how we can set the MSR or how exactly we can access the MSR!! How we will know how many MSRs are present ? And how to access them ?? Thank you. Vamsi -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yang Huang Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:39 PM To: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: How to disable the CPU cache? Hi list, In one of my measurements I would like to disable both L1 and L2 cache of the processor, which is VIA Eden ESP 6000. According to its datasheet, I modified corresponding bits in the MSR, Machine Specified Register, in order to disable CPU caching, but failed. The machine reboots as soon as I write to the MSR! Then how can I disable the CPU caching? I am playing with Linux 2.6.10, applications are compiled with uClibc 3.3.5 Thank you in advanced for any hints or suggestions! with kind regards, Yang -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
