New kernels

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Linus Torvalds has released the RC2 of kernel 7.2 for testing.

I have compiled it for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

Download and further information: github.com

Monitoring the cross-compilation of the RC2 with PROXMOX:



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[Hypex]

Have you a lscpu output with L2 caches? I found some old lscpu outputs in this forum but always without L2 caches.

I've also found the L2 caches missing as well. Including the System Profiler. Which lists the 2 caches as being 0kB. And 0 BogoMips. Definitely bogus.

But the worse it looks for me, is my L1 caches. Mine is only 64KB while everyone else has 128KB L1 caches. I never knew this until now. Why does my X1000 have an inferior CPU?

[xeno74]

I've also found the L2 caches missing as well. Including the System Profiler. Which lists the 2 caches as being 0kB. And 0 BogoMips. Definitely bogus.

Do you have a screenshot or a shell output with a working L2 cache from the older kernels?

But under linux is reported only L1 cache, and L2 cache is allways 0. getconf output is L1=L2=0

See also lstopo - shows two single-core sockets and no L2 cache, and not one dual-core.

Do anybody know origin of these number ( hwtree or something) ?
Do have this impact on speed with linux, or is it only "cosmetics" info?
Is the same problem on other platforms? I have to look on Pegasos and powermac.

This problem already existed in 2020.

I have found an old lstopo screenshot from 2017 but there aren't any L2 caches.

[Hypex]

Do you have a screenshot or a shell output with a working L2 cache from the older kernels?

No, not that I know of. Not in the screenshots I found in my older installs. I still have a few older kernels installed so could test those which are still functional.