On Thursday 26 June 2008 05:02, someone who identifies as *Rico* wrote
in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/

> On Jun 25, 6:12 pm, Aragorn <arag...@chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, I would be thoroughly surprised if Linux didn't use or
>> find your L2 cache, since this is something enabled or disabled at the
>> hardware level, not from within the kernel, and I have certainly never
>> heard of any cache problems with Linux. So in the end, it /may/ be a
>> shortcoming of the /lshw/ version on your live CD, or possibly a flaw in
>> the kernel's ring buffer output.
>
> I did as you said part of my dmesg output is:
>
> [ 31.644605] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
> [ 31.644606] CPU: L2 cache: 6144K
> [ 31.644607] CPU 1/1 -> Node 0

<snip>

> Now does this mean that the kernel uses the l2 cache, or that this is
> part of the message that the e8400 spews? I see no message in the entire
> dmesg output that the l2 output has been disabled or anything out of what
> I would expect...

Strictly speaking, it is a message from the kernel that it has found a
usable L2 cache the size of 6144 KB. And what it has found, it uses. ;-)

So in other words, the /lshw/ report was flawed and it may very well be a
bug in /lshw/ then. ;-)

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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)