Subject: Re: 3/470 - IO Cache
To: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/19/1997 20:13:45
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 19:41:04 -0800 (PST) 
 Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com> wrote:

 > The I/O cache is a DMA cache.  That is, it is a cache for data received by
 > DVMA devices.  It makes for very fast DMA transfers.

The Sun 4/400 has an I/O cache, as well.  NetBSD/sparc doesn't yet support
it, but it's one of the last things we need in order to run on the 4/400.

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