This comes up every so often, so I've added it (complete with
	additional info culled from previous port-i386 posting :), to
	the NetBSD/i386 FAQ

	It should show up in the next hour of so as
	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#cyrix-486dlc-cache

		David/absolute

                  -=-  and team B will be... Kenny.  -=-

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Martin Husemann wrote:

> >   WARNING: CYRIX 486DLC CACHE UNCHANGED.
> >
> > What does this mean, and what inconvenient consequences might it have,
> > that NetBSD thinks it needs to warn me about this? So far the machine
> > runs fine and about 50% faster than the old Intel.
> 
> The kernel hasn't touched the Cyrix special cache settings, as it does not
> know if this is safe on that machine. It's safe if your BIOS does the right
> thing (i.e. is Cyrix aware), and I think there are some kernel options to
> tell the kernel about this fact.
> 
> The default, with the warning you see, is safe, but maybe a bit slower. I
> used to run a router with this warning for some time and never had enough
> incentive to find out if the BIOS knew about the processor.
> 
> > One other thing: I installed 1.4_BETA on a second hard disk in that
> > computer, but was unable to make isdn4bsd-beta-00.71 work with it
> > (neither did it work with 1.3.3 for me).
> 
> A new public beta of I4B will be available real soon - we are just arranging
> for it to work with the 1.4 release...
> 
> 
> 
> Martin
>