From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 06:42:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA16247 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 06:42:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from teel.info-noire.com (slpp-122.interlinx.qc.ca [207.134.144.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA16239 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 06:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@teel.info-noire.com) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by teel.info-noire.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16025; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:24:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:24:46 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Boisvert Reply-To: Alex Boisvert To: Haider Roland VAI/TAW2 cc: bsd-questions Subject: Re: pentium != cyrix 6x86 ? In-Reply-To: <70D6A3FCD8F1CF11A86508002BE74D7932F0B2@mail1.vai.co.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > iīm running freebsd 2.2.2 on a cyrix 6x86 p166+ which i thought should > be a pentium compatible processor. > but after recompiling the kernel with cpu=586 it didnīt boot and told me > instead that i donīt have a 586 type cpu. > using now cpu=486 works just fine, but does anybody know why cpu=586 > didnīt work? i couldnīt find anything in the faq. Which version of FreeBSD are you running? Cyrix Pxxx+ processors are now correctly detected in version 2.2.5 and -stable. There's not inherent problems using an old version of FreeBSD with a Cyrix processor though. (But it won't use Pentium optimizations) Regards, Alex. --- FreeBSD: Decouvrez la puissance de votre PC! www.freebsd.org