Hi Brad, On 2/7/23 12:28 PM, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 12:31:17AM -0700, Stan Johnson wrote: >> On 2/6/23 8:25 PM, Finn Thain wrote: >>> >>> These systems are too slow for needless key generation so a bug report >>> may be needed. >>> >> >> The Mac IIci (25 MHz) is only about 50% faster that the SE/30 (16 MHz). >> The Debian kernel booted on the IIci, though it took somewhere between >> 30 and 60 minutes. If it were just slowness, shouldn't the SE/30 be >> expected to boot in about 60 to 120 minutes (I let it run for 3 hours)? >> > > Is the optional L2 cache card installed in your IIci? If so, that > could give a really big performance boost on something like this. I > suspect the key generation routines and data don't fit in the tiny L1 > cache in a 68030, but would fit easily in the L2 cache. Any older > models like the SE/30 weren't designed to be able to have an L2 cache. > This difference alone could probably double or triple the performance > even without the clock speed change. >
Yes, I do have the L2 cache card installed in the IIci. If you think it would be useful, I don't mind letting the SE/30 run overnight to see if it eventually boots. -Stan