Re: L2 cache etc

["A. Sinan Unur" <sinan@econ.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>]

well, i hate following up my own posts like this but i forgot to mention 
that i have debian 1.2.6 distribution and the kernel version is 2.0.27.

sorry.


On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> hi,
> 
> yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support 
> and get rid of a bunch of scsi, cd-rom and ethernet drivers. anyway, 
> after the first boot, i checked /var/adm/messages and found some 
> unexpected diagnostics regarding the PCI bus. basically, before i built 
> the kernel, the following two lines used to be logged to the messages file:
> 
> PCI BIOS Rev 2.10
> Probing PCI hardware
> 
> now, in addition to that i get:
> 
> cache L2 not supported
> CPU-PCI posted write not supported
> CPU-Memory posted write not supported
> PCI-Memory posted write not supported
> PCI-Burst not supported
> 
> the system seems to perform at roughly the same level as before. i am 
> kind of baffled by these messages. anyway, here is some more info
> 
> i have:
> Intel 486 DX4/75
> UM 8810 APIO (with the stupid buggy cmd640) PCI Motherboard (v.3.2)
> 256K L2 cache
> 16 Mb RAM
> Phoenix BIOS (v.4.04)
> 
> i configured the kernel using make menuconfig and selected both options 
> regarding PCI bios.
>  any ideas??
> 
>     -- Sinan
> 
> ps: i would appreciate it if you could cc your response to me ... i might 
> have to unsubscribe from the list due to heavy traffic ... i receive my 
> mail at a really congested machine.
> 
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