Re: L2 cache etc

[Nelson Posse Lago <listas2@that.com.br>]

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

> 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

You turned "PCI Bridge Optimization" on. Don't know much more about it,
but that's where it comes from. I suppose the code can't "optimize" your
hardware.

Hope this helps,
Nelson
lago@that.com.br