Date: 29 Mar 2002 13:09:29 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Guilherme Oliveira <guilherme@nortenet.pt> Cc: Yann Ramin <atrus@atrustrivalie.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug ? Building kernel/world error on Cyrix [resolved] Message-ID: <cblmcbcc8m.mcb@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3CA49393.E112B4AA@nortenet.pt> References: <3CA3F28B.C28FA8A2@nortenet.pt> <3CA40604.9050205@atrustrivalie.org> <3CA49393.E112B4AA@nortenet.pt>
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Guilherme Oliveira <guilherme@nortenet.pt> writes: > Then I installed world+kernel and builded again with 'CPUTYPE=i686' in > make.conf and 'cpu I686_CPU' in kernel configuration and builded fine > again ... :/ Yes, I ran the IBM 6x86MX PR233 version of that (187 MHz) under Linux and configured every not more Cyrix-specific as "686". I never regetted buying it, given my feelings toward WIntel. There are (or were) several web pages with all kinds of CPU register usage tricks only a few of which made it into the Linux kernel (and probably the same or fewer in the FreeBSD kernel). Most would consider such tweaking a waste of time, but somebody obviously didn't. There was a software package called "set6x86" which had tools I'd call from /etc/rc.local. I very much doubt if it would work with FreeBSD, but maybe you could hack it if you're into that sort of thing. There was something to enable low-power during "cpu idle". Something to fix the "COMA bug" which only some chip versions needed. Something for "Fast IORT" and something for "Enable WT_ALLOC". There was also some "Linear Video Frame Buffer" stuff that was supposed to help considerably (for some useages). I don't know what FreeBSD has for this stuff. I suppose you've looked in LINT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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