Subject: Re: we_re_toast: kdb_trap() in trap.c
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/22/1999 10:56:05
	This came round a little while back and I added an entry to
	the i386 FAQ:

	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#cyrix-486dlc-cache

	may help :)

		David/absolute

       What _is_, what _should be_, and what _could be_ are all distinct.

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > ISTR someone recommending turning off external cache.  Is this a BIOS
> > thing, or do I have to do something with the kernel too?
> 
> Well, a grep for CYRIX in sys/arch/i386/i386/* turned up
> CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS and CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS #ifdefs in locore.s and
> machdep.c ...
> 
> At a minimum, I'd look at the code in the vicinity of that ifdef to
> make sure you had the cache really turned off..
> 
> 					- Bill
>