On Nov 7, 2004, at 1:54 PM, Russell Hires wrote:
> Hmmm...kernel question I don't have the answer to. I have a G3/266, and
> there's a few different distros that support it: debian (the one I
> use),
> Gentoo, Yellowdog, Mandrake...but it's really a kernel question.
> However, I think that because it has the upgrade card, and the upgrade
> is just a plugged in CPU there shouldn't be a problem.
>
well it seems to still be a problem for people who use G3 upgrade
cards. With out being able to enable the l2 cache there is a huge
preformance hit. for OSX and darwin you can load kernel extensions as
they are called to the enabling of the l2 cache.
> You may be better off asking in the distro-version-you-want-to-use
> mailing list. Not enough PPC people here.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Russell
>
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:45, Robert Snyder wrote:
>> I am sitting on a 7300 aka 7500 aka 7600 (all share the same
>> motherboard) Long story short it has a Newer Tech Max Power G3 300mhz
>> upgrade card in the unit. It use to be an issue with linux not beging
>> able to use the 1mb backside l2 cache on the g3 card . This happens
>> to make a big difference in speed. Is this still and issue with the
>> G3 upgrade cards and linux. I have OSX on the unit right now but have
>> some extra space. (about 20 gigss free i was going to use for linux)
>> but I dont want to go through the hassle of installing linux for it to
>> be slower than dirt because it cant enabled the g3 l2 cache.
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