Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:27:13 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 & PPro specific instructions Message-ID: <19980521132713.A13596@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199805210400.MAA20186@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>; from Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:00:47PM %2B0800 References: <199805210400.MAA20186@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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According to Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth: > I'm a little unclear on this - my K6 reports itself as a 586 class CPU under > FreeBSD, but I was wondering if it implemented some of the PPro specific > instructions/features. PPro instructions I don't think so. Check AMD docs for this, they're available in PDF format from AMD's site. The main document is very interesting with many details about the internal architecture of the processor. If you want to play with it, get EGCS + the PGCC patches (they're in ports and available from ftp.goof.com). With the new compiler you can specify -march=amdk6 and have code abit tuned for the K6. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #60: Fri May 15 21:04:22 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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