Is there much chance that cache support will make it into the main source tree?


The test kernel works well for me too, but giving up some of the more recent improvements to the kernel just for the speed increase is a bummer.

Brad
> 
> Just wanted to say that I've been using this kernel for a while, and have 
> had good luck with it. There was a while where it was occasionally 
> freezing on reboot. It hasn't done it recently though - I don't know why.
> 
> -1LT Avram Dorfman
> HQ USAF Network Management
> permanent email address: avram@pobox.com
> 
> "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of 
> prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between 
> groundward tropism and lachrimatory behavior forms."
> 
> On Mon, 6 May 1996, Kevin Radke wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For the brave, there is a new Daystar test kernel at:
> > 
> > ftp://cpre1.ee.iastate.edu/pub/netbsd/netbsd-daystar#2.tar.gz
> > 
> > It should be more robust than the previous kernel.  It
> > was compiled from current source as of Apr 28 (or sometime
> > near there)
> > 
> > Don't even try it if your machine doesn't have a
> > daystar powercache installed. :)  The magic word for the day
> > would probably be "buss-error"...
> > 
> > You can also leave your powercache enabled when booting
> > into netbsd, since the kernel disables the cache early in
> > boot, and then re-enables it when it is ready.
> > 
> > It has been fairly well tested on my SE/30 w/20MB and a
> > 33Mhz Daystar Powercache.  Some old benchmarks I ran
> > showed about a 25% increase in speed compared to the
> > cache being disabled.
> > 
> > Comments welcome...
> > Kevin
> > 
> > P.S. When time permits, source containing my mods will become available...
> >      (Hopefully soon)
> > 
> > 
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> > |/     |)                   ~ Flight Management Systems Engineer
> > |\evin |\adke                ~ Rockwell-Collins Avionics
> > radke@cpre1.ee.iastate.edu    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > kmradke@fmsb.cca.rockwell.com ~  Iowa State University Grad
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
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