Subject: Re: G3 cache kernel
To: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/23/2002 14:25:01
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Joe Laffey wrote:

> I am trying to get the G3 cache on the upgrade card on my 7300 enabled.
> The card is a Newer G3 275MHz with a 1Mb 1:1 backside cache (275MHz).
>
> I added the folowing to my kernel conf
>
> options L2CR_CONFIG="(L2SIZ_1M|L2CLK_10|L2RAM_PIPELINE_BURST)"
>
> When using this kernel I see:
> cpu0 at mainbus0: 750 (Revision 2.2), ID 0 (primary)
> cpu0: HID0 8290c0a4<EMCP,ECLK,DOZE,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,BHT>
> cpu0: 279.07 MHz
> cpu0: 1MB backside cache
>
> And then it hangs. I have tried the other two settings for the SRAM as
> well. I am about to try a 1.5 clock ratio for grins.
>
> Has anyone had any luck with something like this? Any ideas? Could this be
> the booter problem Bill was looking into? This has the booter put on by
> the 1.6 installer (it says version 1.6). Which file is this? (my netbsd
> box is not running, ATM. If it is called something.xcf I will find it.)

If you're using the stuff installed by the 1.6 install tools, that could
well be your problem.

You can use the ofwboot.xc from
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/wrstuden/ofwboot.xcf and see if that
helps.

Take care,

Bill