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- From: lmike@prometheus.hol.gr (Mike Lalaounis)
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- Subject: Re: 68040/68060 question
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:50:54 GMT
- Organization: Software Innovations EUROPE
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- On 13 Apr 1996 18:01:18 GMT, bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti) wrote:
-
- >
- >
- >A question to who has a 68040/68060 manual:
- >
- >is it possible to disable burst modes in datacache? the Blizzard1260 doesn't
- >allow it (its CPU060 command), is it a 68060 limitation or just the command?
- >
- >Thanks for info.
- >
- >
- > /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\
- > | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- > | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- > | working on "VirtualRally" & "StarFighter" |
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- >
- >
-
- About 68040 which has 2 4Kb caches (instruction and data):
-
- Both 4-way set-associative caches have 64 sets of four, 16-byte lines. Each
- cache line contains an address tag, status information, and four long words of
- data. The address tag contains the upper 22 bits of the physical address. The
- status information for the instruction cache consists of a single valid bit for
- the entire line. The status information for the data cache contains a valid bit,
- as well as four additional bits to indicate dirty status for each long word in
- the line. SINCE EVERY VALIDITY IS PROVIDED ONLY ON A LINE BASIS, AN ENTIRE LINE
- MUST BE LOADED FROM SYSTEM MEMORY IN ORDER FOR THE CACHE TO STORE AN ENTRY. ONLY
- BURST MODE ACCESSES THAT SUCCESSFULLY READ FOUR LONG WORDS CAN BE CACHED. Memory
- devices unable to support bursting can respond to line read or write accesses by
- asserting Transfer-Burst-Inhibit, forcing the processor to complete the access
- as a sequence of long-word accesses.
-
- I think that explains everything!! :)
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