Subject: Re: The StrongArm Bug
To: None <richard.earnshaw@arm.com>
From: William Gallafent <William.Gallafent@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/15/1998 13:36:30
> > Apparently, anything later than K does not suffer from this particularly
> > nasty bug (AFAICR)
> You can work it out without opening the lid -- since it is in the chip
> identification number (NetBSD prints it at boot time when it prints out
> the name of the CPU -- "SA110 rev X ..."). If it says rev 2 you have a
> bad one, if it says rev 3 (there may be later ones as well, but I've not
> heard of any) then you are safe.
You're right of course - my approach is a little more 'hands on' (and
probably quicker if you don't have NetBSD installed!) I suppose :)
Cheers,
Bill