Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:13:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mrm@marmot.Mole.ORG (M.R.Murphy) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, sos@freebsd.org, alex@fa.tdktca.com, bmk@fta.com, Eloy.Paris@ven.ra.rockwell.com, hal@wwa.com, hardware@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD works with Cy486DLC processors? Message-ID: <199606182313.QAA11417@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606181557.IAA20006@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at Jun 18, 96 08:57:26 am
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> > Actually, you shouldn't touch that DLC-specific code unless 1) you > > know what it does, 2) you have a non-traditional motherboard that has > > a chance of actually working. > > What do you think is a reasonable thing to do if Eloy's 486DX4/100 is > being misidentified as a 486DLC? Ignore it because it can't make the code act detrimentally? The only room for fatal error would be if the DLC was being seen as a DX4 *and* we had DLC-specific cache management code that *wasn't* being correctly triggered to take care of the DLC non-cacheable-bit honoring bug or the no-bus-snoop bug. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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