Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:37:51 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" <jdw@wwwi.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch to recognize AMD 5x86 cpus Message-ID: <199608061537.IAA18695@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 06 Aug 96 01:14:25 -0700. <199608060813.BAA27815@voltimand.csd.wwwi.com>
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>At 09:20 PM 8/5/96 -0700, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:
>>Furthermore, the Cyrix 6x86 is just a souped-up Pentium, in spite of
>>what their marketing department wants to call it. If there is only an
>>I686_CPU target in the kernel, I would expect that not to run on a
>>Cyrix 6x86.
>Is I686_CPU valid/useful in 2.1.5?
I have no idea. I doubt GCC/GAS has any P6-specific code, yet. There
is a conditional store that would be a very useful optimization (helps
prevent pipeline stalls as opposed to conditional branch and store),
if you were building specifically for a P6. See the Intel web site
for more info.
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