Re: [PATCH] K6 write allocate - shining new version

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:31:35 +0100


On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:01:46AM +0300, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:

> P.S. I can add support for K5 & K6-2. Do we need it? (But I cannot test
> this support. So if you want support for K5, be ready to test my patches
> :) ) For K6-2 probably all modern BIOSes do the appropriate thing by
> itself, I guess...

It'd be quite nice if you could include support for the new K6-2's with the
CTX (K6-3) core. Many BIOSes can handle the normal K6-2's but fail to enable
*any write caching* on the new series, since the register layouts have
changed slightly.

Vojtech

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