Earyly Cyrix CPUs was Re: Missing cache flush.

Pavel Machek pavel at suse.cz
Wed Jun 6 15:44:34 EDT 2001


Hi1

> > 3. Buggy implementations like the Cyrix 486es that don't properly maintain
> >    cache coherency.
> 
> The early Cyrix CPUs (and some 1.x rev 6x86 cpus I believe too) arent supported
> and dont work. The problem is best corrected with a hammer and a visit to
> ebay

What is list of cpu's not supported? I want one ;-).

[It is even more broken than 386? Wow!]

[Is it really not work-aroundable? LIke declaring no DMA on system and using
PIO for floppy?]
								Pavel
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