Subject: Re: we_re_toast: kdb_trap() in trap.c
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/22/1999 12:09:13
> ISTR someone recommending turning off external cache. Is this a BIOS
> thing, or do I have to do something with the kernel too?
Well, a grep for CYRIX in sys/arch/i386/i386/* turned up
CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS and CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS #ifdefs in locore.s and
machdep.c ...
At a minimum, I'd look at the code in the vicinity of that ifdef to
make sure you had the cache really turned off..
- Bill