From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 19:53:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B622C16A4D1 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 19:53:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D991B43D49 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 19:53:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (212.181.162.201) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.1.026.7) id 42662CF100626527 for cvs-all@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:53:39 +0200 Received: (qmail 53016 invoked by uid 1001); 12 May 2005 19:53:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:53:37 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20050512195337.GA52993@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Jeremy , "Michael W. Lucas" , doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200505121505.j4CF5c7i076426@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050512152855.GD92175@eddie.nitro.dk> <20050512154337.GA73901@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050512162100.GA50447@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050512163137.GA74349@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050512171715.GA51426@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050512194236.GA223@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050512194236.GA223@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: "Michael W. Lucas" cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:53:40 -0000 On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 05:42:36AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2005-May-12 19:17:15 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > >(The hardware notes for 6-CURRENT seems to be correct, while those for > >5-STABLE needs to be updated. The hardware notes for both 4.x and 5.x > >also has bogus warnings about the 80386sx which should be removed. (Bogus > >since from the OS's point of view there is no difference whatsoever > >between the 80386sx and a full-blowb 80386dx.) > > OTOH, FreeBSD won't work on a 80486sx since that doesn't have a FPU. > Either a 80486dx or a 80486sx/80487 is needed. This probably should > be documented instead. Correct, but that is technically included in stating that an FPU is needed. (Which the 6-CURRENT hardware notes does say, but the 5-STABLE hardware notes does not.) (And FreeBSD 4.x should work fine on a 80486sx.) > And some of the 486 clones didn't have a FPU > either (the IBM ones come to mind). Quite possible. I must admit I know nearly nothing about the various 486 clones out there (other than the fact that such clones did exist.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se