From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 6 08:38:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA25120 for current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@mindbender.headcandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25114 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18695; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608061537.IAA18695@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch to recognize AMD 5x86 cpus In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 06 Aug 96 01:14:25 -0700. <199608060813.BAA27815@voltimand.csd.wwwi.com> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:37:51 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------