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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 1998 23:05:47 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        ITG staff <jin@george.lbl.gov>
Cc:        Hardware Mailing list <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram
Message-ID:  <19980306230547.A20033@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199803062031.MAA16543@george.lbl.gov>; from ITG staff on Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:31:02PM -0800
References:  <199803062031.MAA16543@george.lbl.gov>

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According to ITG staff:
> the AMD K6 always works on ASUS HX motherboard, however, just the information
> reported on the console is wrong.

There is the matter of Write Allocation (do I get the term right ?). It is
enabled by default by the BIOS I think.
 
> I tested under this environment, the performance is K6-200. Also, the memory
> performance is better then under BIOS 205 (the latest one) because --
> that under BIOS 109, the K6 FPU looks like 64-bits,
> but under BIOS 205, K6 FPU looks like 32-bits. It is very interesting.

But no one uses the BIOS under FreeBSD... What do you call "looks like
64-bits" ?
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar  1 18:50:39 CET 1998

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