Subject: Re: Daystar Accelerators (Re: fpu trap with current from 2 Jan)
To: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>
From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@dragon.stack.nl>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/16/2004 22:28:54
> > kindly about the daystar patch for PowerCache '030. I believed that
> > Control Panels in MacOS are not necessary for NetBSD machines.
> >      Konnichiwa, Cameron-san :)
> 
> Konnichi wa, ikaga desu ka? :)
> 
> Correct; when I was using a Daystar PowerCache 50MHz '030 with my IIci, I
> had a set of patches for 1.5.2. Unfortunately, I have not seen these patches
> for 1.6.x unless they have already been added into the kernel source -- I'm
> still using 1.5.x on my IIci.

I've used a 50MHz Daystar accelerator (don't know the name, had separate
socket for 68882) in my IIci and had acceleration under 1.6

A Daystar 33MHz 68040 also worked.

However I don't know if the cache was enabled.
 
> For this to work, however, the PowerCache control panel had to be installed
> and turned on in MacOS; otherwise, NetBSD could not see it.

I didn't have to do anything.