Subject: Re: poor performances on cyrix 6x86
To: Guenther Grau <s_grau@IRA.UKA.DE>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@ensta.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/1996 18:23:43
Guenther Grau said:
> 
> > The 6x86P150+ should be called "6x86P100-" :)
> 
> Are you sure that the caches are recognized and set the same with
> both processors? If I remember correctly, a German computer magazine
> recently tested the performance of both, and the Cyrix perfomed like
> advertised. I have to check again to be sure, though.
> 

Hum, are the caches enabled/disabled by the bios, or NetBSD ?

I didn't change anyting in the bios (it detects the (rigth) cpu type 
by itself), and NetBSD didn't says anything about caches.

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