Subject: Re: ncr woes on 1.4
To: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/26/1999 23:09:04
On Jun 27, 12:52pm, simonb@NetBSD.ORG (Simon Burge) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: ncr woes on 1.4

| I take it you're talking about the CPU cache?  I can only find
| references to Cyrix cache stuff in the kernel, so by the BIOS seems the
| only way to do it.  I guess I could expect some performance impact by
| doing this, but I really don't know how big the cache is.  Maybe it is
| time to updrade to a Pentium-type thingy...
| 
| I wasn't planning on rebooting that machine any time soon (it's my main
| home box), but I'll try this (assuming that's what you mean) when I get
| a chance.

Yeah, that is what I meant. Either swap the card, or get another cpu...
Or mark the region that the card needs as non cacheable.

christos