Subject: Re: we_re_toast: kdb_trap() in trap.c
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/22/1999 10:56:05
This came round a little while back and I added an entry to
the i386 FAQ:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#cyrix-486dlc-cache
may help :)
David/absolute
What _is_, what _should be_, and what _could be_ are all distinct.
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > 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
>