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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD works with Cy486DLC processors?
To: mrm@marmot.Mole.ORG (M.R.Murphy)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:13:49 -0700 (MST)
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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
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