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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

> The length of the burst is encoded in the bus command sent out by the
> R4000 at the beginning of a read or write cycle.  For the system to
> work, the memory controller has to be able to do the right thing for
> both of the lengths which might happen...
[...]
> This is true: for L2-equipped chips I assume you can't see the
> difference between I- and D-.

 Ah sure -- now I see where a fault in my consideration is.  While
thinking of SC chips, I forgot of the existence of PC ones -- certainly if
the Magnum used a PC configuration, its chipset could easily observe a
change of a p-cache line size.

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