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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:30:14 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, dyson@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/include endian.h
Message-ID:  <199612070430.PAA14687@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>  Modified:    sys/i386/include  endian.h
>  Log:
>  Change endian.h so that when a kernel is compiled without I386_CPU, and
>  with one of the following (I486_CPU,I586_CPU,I686_CPU) so it can take
>  advantage of the very quick bswap insn.  This keeps LKMs from being
>  built to take advantage of the insn, but also makes sure that the LKMs
>  can be run on all CPUs.  (The LKMs don't pick up the CPU options :-( ).

Most of the kernel doesn't pick up the CPU options.

Bruce



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