Re: AMD K6-2 / Bogomips problem
On 17-Jan-99, Marcus Brinkmann took time to write :
> On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 03:34:42PM +0100, pat@patoche.org wrote:
>>
>> besides the fact it seems outdated (1997-12-13), it says like me:
>> AMD K5/K6 clock * (2.00 plusminus 0.010) 11.1
>>
>> and it lists K6 at 166Mhz having already ~330Bogomips !
>>
>> so my AMD K6-2 at 350Mhz should have 700Bogomips isn't it ?
>
> I don't know what -2 means at K6-2.
it's the new generation of K6 chips. also known as K6-3D
>> so next part of my question:
>> what should i check ? bios settings ?
>> (the howto is not precise enough imho)
>
> Quote from the howto:
> Many CPUs are prone to faulty setups of
>
> · memory cache setting (write-back is wrong for BogoMips, often
> reported lower than 5; write-through is ok)
less than clear to me....
> · turbo-buttons (should be ON)
in these days i rarely found units with turbo buttons anymore
> · BIOS-software emulated fake cache (change it for real cache)
>
> · similar cache and clock related things.
yeah... but 'similar' doesn't tell me where to start searching...
Thanks for your help,
but besides the bios to check - and i'm not very optimistic with that, will
see tomorrow - , i don't see anything to do... bad !
Patrick
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