Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [Q] Cyrix/IBM 6x86 ? | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:57:31 +0000 (GMT) |
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> in HLT, otherwise 3.6 A and more. (sic!) Things like "Data forwarding", > "Fill on Write Miss", "Write Gathering", "Weak Ordering" etc. are powerful > options which aren't supported by Pentiums, and you have to enable them
Weak ordering if its doing write re-ordering will need to go on/off as you access stuff like WD80x3 ethernet cards. The other stuff ought to be ok on the whole. Try it and see - you can access 22h/23h from a root program with ioperm().
Alan
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