Re: 2.4.6-ac5 gives wrong cache info for Duron in /proc/cpuinfo

William Scott Lockwood III (thatlinuxguy@hotmail.com)
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 06:51:02 -0500

It never ceases to amaze me how ANAL some people on this list are. :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ketil Froyn" <ketil@froyn.com>
To: "David Balazic" <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: 2.4.6-ac5 gives wrong cache info for Duron in /proc/cpuinfo

| On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Balazic wrote:
|
| > /proc/cpuinfo gives :
| > cache size: 64 KB
| >
| > This is wrong :
| > - the Duron has 192 kilobytes of cache ( 64 L1 I, 64 L1 D , 64 L2 unified )
| > - what is KB ?
| > - "kilo" is abbreviated to 'k' , not 'K'
| > - "B" means "Bell" :-)
|
| I believe it is normal to write 'K' for 1024, 'k' for 1000 and 'B' for
| bytes and 'b' for bits.
|
| Have a look at acronymfinder.com, they distinguish the capital and
| lowercase b for bits and bytes.
|
| Ketil
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