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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!sgi!rhyolite!vjs
- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: CISC Microcode (was Re: RISC Mainframe)
- Message-ID: <nmcad0g@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <19920714.070713.843@almaden.ibm.com> <13v85hINN2og@rodan.UU.NET> <GLEW.92Jul23183353@pdx007.intel.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:58:49 GMT
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- In article <GLEW.92Jul23183353@pdx007.intel.com>, glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
- > ...
- > . How about other worlds? Which is more common,
- > cache coherent or cache incoherent I/O? I believe John Mashey already
- > noted that on the R3000 I/O was non-coherent, but on the R4000 I/O is
- > coherent.
-
-
- Without intending to contradict John, since I don't recall what he
- wrote, please note that not all currently shipping R4000 systems have
- coherent I/O.
-
- The two I'm aquainted with (one may not be quite shipping yet--I don't
- know) have 128-byte wide, write-back caches that must be explicitly
- flushed and/or invalidated by driver software.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-