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- From: Keith.Radley@launchpad.unc.edu (Keith Radley)
- Subject: Re: Data/Instruction Cache & BURST modes on 68030? Why/when?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.212901.860@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
- References: <hellerS.724958427@batman> <72192@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:29:01 GMT
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- >You should leave the setting alone! A small tutorial is in order!
- >SetPatch will setup the system correctly so that the caches and burst
- >are correct for the Amiga.
- >
- >several long words of data. This happens faster than if each long
- >word was a separate access. This pre-loads the cache and allows you
- >to get extra 'hits' on the instruction cache(or data cache). There
- >are times(code that branches) where this might slow down the cpu, but
- >in general it wil speed it up slightly.
- >
- >The 68020 has a single cache for data and instructions, the 68030
- >has separate ones. The cache size in this case is 256 bytes. The
- >68040 has 4096 byte caches for instruction and for data.
- >
- >There are no such things as stupid, dumb, or ignorant questions, just
- >stupid, dumb, or ignorant people that will not ask questions.
-
- Thanks a lot for this info. I have always known about the cache and when
- I use sysinfo it says data cache off so I put a command in my SS to turn
- it on thinking I was missing something. I guess I'll turn it off. Since
- you are answering questions can you tell me what mungwall and enforcer
- are? I know people mention using it on a 3000 cause it needs an MMU.
- Thanks for being helpful! One other thing, I use an A3000 with 2.04 in
- rom, is there anyway I can use CPU or some other command to softkick 1.3
- in rom? (I know I could do it w/o the rom but I just want to go 1.3 in
- rare times not enough to justify removing the rom.) Thanks!
-
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