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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:15:01 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Determining CPU features / cache organization from userland
Message-ID:  <20031014161501.GS533@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031013193258.GB25160@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote this message on Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 20:32 +0100:
> i386 pc98 amd64
> ---------------
> Action: Add code to identcpu.c to fill out hw_cacheinfo.
> 
> Cache discovery: Extended CPUID.
>  Static tables if 486-class machine. No cache on 386.
> TLB discovery: Extended CPUID.
>  Static tables if 486-class machine. No cache on 386.

not to be a stick, but I do have a Am386DX-40 that has 128kb of cache
on the mother board.  It's the same style SRAMs that most 486's have
on their board.

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