On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 23:17:11 +0100, Michel Lanners composed: > On 27 Dec, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: > > too bad there isn't a kernel driver to enable the cache on those cards > > at boot up under debian, cuz then you wouldn't need bootx, you'd be > > able to quik ;). > > There is, actually. You can specify an l2cr value on the kernel command > line. Here is mine on my G3-upgraded 7600: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cmdline > root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0 l2cr=0xa9000000 console=tty0 > video=scrollback:64k video=controlfb: video=matrox: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ha whoah, neat :) i see you also modded your scrollback, i was wondering how it would be done. thx :) > > You can also have a look at this page for more info (it's a bit outdated > by mostly still relevant): > > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/g3upgrade.html > > Cheers > > Michel > > PS By the way, I suppose you're talking about L2 (level 2) cache, not > L3? And I also think it's worth a benchmark removing the old L2 cache > DIMM on the motherboard... it is and i bet it'll turn out that on non-g3 mobos it'll be faster than without it, and on with G3 mobos it won't work. at least from a macos pov. i wonder if it does work having the L2 cache in there, or am i remembering badly? simon