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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:21:05 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: prom 'diskload' command doesn't do what i want
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:11:18 -0800 "Brian Stark"
<brian.stark@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy,
> 
> We didn't have room on the board to accommodate a socket for the PMC
> part because it required mounting holes.  Same goes for LA coverage
> on the memory.  That was one of the compromises we had to make early
> on to get everything to fit.  As is usually the case, debugability is
> the first thing to go when things don't fit.  I don't know if
> debugability is a word, but you know what I mean.

You can call me a debugabilly.

> Agree that you can deal with the cache issue, but to have complete
> visibility, the best approach is to run uncached.  I think the other
> runtimes have a #define that could be changed to do this, but then
> again, you're talking to a hardware guy about software.  Not sure if
> this would be the case with the OS.

Somebody sent in a patch a few weeks ago making the uncached thing a
config option. Just select the config option and rebuild.  Good think I
keep up to date with all the latest kernel changes!

Cheers,

a
