sonnet L2/G3 in 6500 powermac

[Rick Thomas]

Sorry... I've shot my wad.  I don't have any other suggestions.

Please report to the list if you get it working.

Enjoy!

Rick

On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 10:02 PM, Richard.Gill@math.uu.nl wrote:

> Rick - thanks! But:
>> Are you sure the extensions get started in the right order?  In
>> particular, if the BootX extension executes before the Sonnet 
>> extension,
>> the G3 will never get started.
>
> Yes. In fact with ResEdit I changed the "type" of the Sonnet extension
> from "INIT" to "scri" so it loaded before BootX. This is the usually
> recommended way.
>
>> Also, I believe there is a hack to set the L2 cache size and/or 
>> other L2
>> parameters, but I don't recall what it was called or where to get 
>> it.  I
>> don't even remember whether it ran under Linux or MacOS.  Maybe 
>> somebody
>> else on this list remembers more.
>
> Yes. There is in fact an extension called G3 Cache enabler,
> made by Powerlogix, which passes an L2 parameter from the Sonnet card
> to BootX. I made this also into a "scri". It loads between the other
> two. There is also a trick you can use once you are in linux
> (with the G3 card running the show). But I never got so far.
> These things are for enabling the L2 cache on the G3 card, not for
> having the G3 power Linux.
>
> pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel here...
>
> Richard.