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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:40:32 +0100
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Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, d@delphij.net,
	Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Utilize i686, SSE and MMX by default on FreeBSD/i386
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Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> Perhaps I was wrong, but I thought Scott's question was more general:
> is there a desire for a special installation suitable to small
> appliances (usually flash-based)?

Not all "small appliances" are flash-based; the Geode-based soekris can
use 2.5" disks and has enough memory to run a stock install.  The only
trouble I've had is with /etc/periodic/daily/470.status-named, which
uses an ungodly amount of memory.  The AMD Geode is more or less
equivalent to a Pentium MMX, and does not have SSE.

Soekris net4801-48:

CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi (266.65-MHz 586-class =
CPU)
  Origin =3D "Geode by NSC"  Id =3D 0x540  Stepping =3D 0
  Features=3D0x808131<FPU,TSC,MSR,CX8,CMOV,MMX>
real memory  =3D 134217728 (128 MB)
avail memory =3D 126160896 (120 MB)

Soekris net5501-70:

CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (499.91-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin =3D "AuthenticAMD"  Id =3D 0x5a2  Stepping =3D 2
  Features=3D0x88a93d<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CLFLUSH,MMX>
  AMD Features=3D0xc0400000<MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
real memory  =3D 536870912 (512 MB)
avail memory =3D 510726144 (487 MB)

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