On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:44:02PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:

 > > Can't this be shut off at boot after the CPU type is detected (or 
 > > turned on for all CPUs except the microSPARC I)?

That is what happens.

 > You most certainly should be doign page zeroing in the idle loop, too.
 > 
 > And I agree with you on this one. Has anyone picked up the Linux/PPC hack for
 > doing pagezero's bypassing the cache?

The i386 port bypasses the cache...

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