>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> writes:

Peter> (I'm assuming the chip labeled "68881" is an FPU.  :) )

	Yes, it is.  You can get another 20% by using a 68882, I
believe.

Peter> Secondly, are there any reccommended ways to "tune" Sun3
Peter> systems?  Apart, that is, from removing kernel options you
Peter> don't use...

Peter> I know that, on the Amiga port, locore.s could be hacked to
Peter> speed a system up detectably by #ifdef'ing the code that
Peter> selects, with every MMU operation, whether to do the '040 or
Peter> the '030 version; would this be a meaningful improvement for
Peter> the sun3 port?  (If so, I suspect it should pend the 3/80 being
Peter> done, because that'll probably massively alter locore.s.)

	Well... your Sun3 is only a 68020.  Sun made a couple 68030
based machines (80,380,?) but Sun never manufactured any 68040 based
machines... so there shouldn't be any 040 code in the Sun3 kernel.

Dave.

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