Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 05:42:36 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <20050512194236.GA223@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050512171715.GA51426@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> 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>
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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. And some of the 486 clones didn't have a FPU either (the IBM ones come to mind). -- Peter Jeremy
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