Subject: Re: Powermac 6500/250 with L2 cache G3 upgrade
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/04/2005 22:42:14
Hello,

> There's a problem, I think. All of the L2 cache slot CPU accelerators were 
> automatic, since they cause the native processor to float. No accelerators 
> that I know about boot using one CPU, then switch somehow to another - 
> that'd be a complicated mess of code to rearrange the MMU tables and stuff 
> like that after the OS has booted and all of that.

Maybe not /that/ much of a mess if it's done early enough - some PCI-based accelerators definitely did this kind of handover.

have fun
Michael