patch to get latest XFree 4.0 snapshot (xf3918) to work on pp cwith r128

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

> >> 3. 601 processors may barf(?) on some of these instructions.
> >
> >No, it does not. It's just that the cache is unified which makes most
> >coherency functions irrelevant.
>
> So 601's have no problems with sync and isync, just eieio?  AFAIK, there is
> some code snippet in the kernel that somehow works around a 601 problem
> with one of the synchronization instructions but I don't remember which one
> right off hand.

There's a bug on certain cards in x100-land that makes them crash on
sync() and eieio().  isync() is irrelevant on a 601, since there's not a
separate instruction cache.

I can only assume that this is what the original poster meant.


Later,
David


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