Jack Lloyd wrote:
>>The L2 cache resides on the motherboard, where it is accessed at
>>external bus speed, while the K6-III has the L2 cache on die, which
>>makes it run at full core speed (this makes the L2 cache on your
>>motherboard to act as a L3 cache).

(See also www.sandpile.org)

> 
> 
> To which CPU are you refering here? The P-II? It was always my
> understanding that the reason the later P-IIs used Slot 1 was because it
> needed a large package in order to keep the cache nearby.

I am refering to the AMD K6-2 and K6-III CPU.

> According to http://www.intel.com/design/PentiumII/prodbref/
> 
> "Performance is enhanced through a dedicated 64-bit cache bus. The speed of
> the level-two cache scales with the processor core frequency."
> 
> IIRC the pre-350 Mhz P-IIs did have an off-chip L2 (so presumably at 66 Mhz
> - ick), and the ones with on-chip L2 run at half the CPU clock speed.
> 
> -Jack

Yes, certainly right. But why are you talking about the Pentium II now?

		Andreas


PS: Sorry, I somehow missed to include netbsd-help@ to the recipients 
last time.