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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/vm vm_page.h
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In-Reply-To: <199610072028.PAA02845@dyson.iquest.net> from John Dyson at "Oct 7, 96 03:28:02 pm"
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John Dyson wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps we could introduce a new word in the kernel config file.
> > Something like 
> > cache	<n>
> > where <n> is the amount of L2 cache. The L1 cache is processor specific
> > and thus can be obtained via the  cpu directive. The rest can then be
> > doen with macros.
> >
> Actually, the L1 cache will be changing on P5 class machines soon.

hmm. But that would be identifiable by the stepping number, right?
If that is to hard the cache directive above can be etended ;-)

-Guido