On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:47, Brian Waite wrote:

Well to preface, some people around here think disabling cache is a good idea.
I report to one of those :). What I am trying to debug is why my custom board
hangs. Basically,  what I see is when a PCI interface starts reading/writing
SDRAM, my 745x processor locks up. I see no more decrementer interrupts being
serviced and using a BDI 2000 JTAG interface I see the processors stalled on
some memory access instruciton. The memory controller (gt64260) seems to be
doing something very wrong and it is thought to be a cache coherency issue.
So to prove this, I was asked to try running without any sort of cache.
Hopefully between Gary's information and yours, Dan I can convince people
that it is futile.

It could be the gt doing something wrong, it could also be the
CPU, 745x have known lockup conditions, though at least some of
them have workarounds enabled in the kernel.

Look closely at the CPU errata.

Ben.


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