Subject: Re: lint issues with larger caches
To: Donald Lee <MacPPC1@caution.icompute.com>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/25/2005 22:53:31
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 08:40:22PM -0500, Donald Lee wrote:
> Whoa!
> 
> This problem sounds suspiciously like the one I was seeing some time
> ago with CPU upgrades on my G4 machines.  See thread:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2005/03/19/0001.html
> 
> Is this the fix for my problem, too?

nah, that's something completely different.

a brief look at the linux code shows that they disable the powersave stuff
for certain revisions of certain G4 CPUs, could you mail me dmesgs from
the machines where you have trouble with it?


> Can I patch it into 1.6.x?

it looks like that patch would apply to the 1.6 branch as well, yea.

-Chuck