From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 27 15:44:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tseinc.com (gatekeeper.tseinc.com [209.83.134.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1FC160DC for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlwest@tseinc.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00723; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:44:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlwest@tseinc.com) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.tseinc.com: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from ws2.tse.com(192.168.2.212) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com via smap (V2.1) id xma000721; Fri, 27 Aug 99 17:43:30 -0500 Message-ID: <006401bef0de$38573d80$d402a8c0@ws2.tse.com> From: "Jay West" To: "Sean Eric Fagan" , Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:48:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had written..... >>As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC >>engine along with an x86 instruction decoder. To which you replied... >Uh, no. > >The Merced does not do PA-RISC decoding in hardware. Period. Wrong. I wish I could send you the Internal design papers that I've gone over myself at HP. It was several years ago, but.... The merced executes PA-RISC instructions natively. It also executes x86 instructions natively. If the chip you get doesn't do one or the other, it's because that section has been lobotomized for marketing/contract reasons due to where you get the chip from. The section is still on the silicon though... Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message