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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 01:11:58 +1100 (EST)
From:      john@pakprotector.com
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   i386/21672: AMD Duron Rev. A0 reports incorrect L2 cache size
Message-ID:  <200010011411.e91EBwm00582@pacer.pakprotector.com>

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>Number:         21672
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       AMD Duron Rev. A0 reports incorrect L2 cache size
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 01 07:20:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Saunders
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS PTY LTD
>Environment:

	AMD Duron Rev. A0 chip.

>Description:

	There is errata with Rev. A0 AMD Duron in that it reports a L2 cache size of 1K
	when it really should be 64K.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Boot with the -v option with a Rev. A0 Duron.

>Fix:

Apply the following patch to implement AMD's suggestion solution.

--- sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c.orig	Sat Sep 30 15:07:33 2000
+++ sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c	Mon Oct  2 01:07:22 2000
@@ -918,9 +918,16 @@
 		printf(", %d bytes/line", regs[3] & 0xff);
 		printf(", %d lines/tag", (regs[3] >> 8) & 0xff);
 		print_AMD_assoc((regs[3] >> 16) & 0xff);
-		if (amd_maxregs >= 0x80000006) {	/* K6-III only */
+		if (amd_maxregs >= 0x80000006) {	/* K6-III, K7 or later */
 			do_cpuid(0x80000006, regs);
-			printf("L2 internal cache: %d kbytes", regs[2] >> 16);
+			/*
+			 * Duron Rev. A0 incorrectly reports L2 cache size as 1K when it's 64K.
+			 */
+			if ((cpu_id & 0xFF0) == 0x630) {
+				printf("L2 internal cache: 64 kbytes");
+			} else {
+				printf("L2 internal cache: %d kbytes", regs[2] >> 16);
+			}
 			printf(", %d bytes/line", regs[2] & 0xff);
 			printf(", %d lines/tag", (regs[2] >> 8) & 0x0f);
 			print_AMD_assoc((regs[2] >> 12) & 0x0f);	


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