Subject: Re: Daystar 50MHz accel working
To: Brad Salai <bsalai@servtech.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/31/1997 14:41:58
Brad Salai wrote:
> 
> At 12:41 PM -0800 12/31/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >> I merged Kevin Radke's routines for mapping and enabling the Daystar
> >> PowerCache into recent sources (current as of a couple weeks ago). The
> >> files that are altered (pmap.c, sys_machdep.c, locore.s) have not been
> >> changed in the meantime, so it should still work on -current. The result
> >> is that the cache is properly enabled, the kernel is as stable as before
> >> and there is a distinct improvement in performance. I have only tried it
> >> on the SE/30 with the 50MHz accelerator. Mail me if anybody would like the
> >> patch.
> >
> >Please send a copy of this patch to Scott Reynolds, scottr@netbsd.org.
> >That way they can make it into the tree.
> >
> Please do this, it would be a very good thing.

If you do, please make sure that it is a config-time option.  Otherwise it
will probably break any machine which doesn't have one installed.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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