From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 31 07:37:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08552 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Cartman.LAN.dom (ubppp233-177.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.233.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08543 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from Beowulf.LAN.dom (Beowulf.LAN.dom [10.0.0.2]) by Cartman.LAN.dom (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA06675; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:36:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:35:04 -0500 Message-ID: <01BE04BA.1EF5B580.cjm2@earthling.net> From: "Christopher J. Michaels" To: "'Dean Hollister'" , "ajk@mastigo4.demon.co.uk" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Cyrix 6x86 CPU Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:35:03 -0500 Organization: WCC X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well of course THAT's going to work, you have all the processors listed there. The one that you need for the Cyrix 6x86 CPU is the following. YES that's the 486, the kernel will panic if you define only the 586. cpu "I486_CPU" My understanding is that by listing all of those processor types, the kernel is not optimized for your specific processor and is a bit slower. -----Original Message----- From: Dean Hollister [SMTP:dean@odyssey.apana.org.au] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 1998 9:14 AM To: ajk@mastigo4.demon.co.uk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 CPU > ---------- > From: Dean Hollister[SMTP:DEAN@ODYSSEY.APANA.ORG.AU] > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 1998 9:14:21 AM > To: ajk@mastigo4.demon.co.uk > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 CPU > Auto forwarded by a Rule > >How best should I enter a Cyrix 6x86 in the cpu "cpu_type" in the kernel >configuration file? The following in the kernel works fine. I detects it perfectly during probe at bootup: machine "i386" cpu "I386_CPU" cpu "I486_CPU" cpu "I586_CPU" cpu "I686_CPU" Regards, d. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message