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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 08:04:58 -0700
From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@MARMOT.Mole.ORG>
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To: Eloy.Paris@ven.ra.rockwell.com, hardware@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: (correction) FreeBSD works with Cy486DLC processors?
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> Hi.
>
> >My microprocessor is a Cyrix Cy486DLC running at a mother board clock rate of 
> >33 MHz and an internal clock rate of 100 MHz.
>
> My apologies: my microprocessor IS NOT a 486DLC, it's a 486DX4. Some people
> out there have pointed that out (thank you guys).
>
> I should have believed to what is written on top of the microprocessor and
> not to what the kernel says:
>
> FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #2: Mon Jun 17 12:22:05 AST 1996
>     eparis@skynet.ven.ra.rockwell.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/SKYNET
> CPU: Cy486DLC (486-class CPU)
>   Origin = "Cyrix"
>

Drop the clock from 33MHz to 25MHz, reenable the internal cache, and
see if the stability improves. I've encountered 2 Cyrix CPU's that
were unstable at the speed marked on the chip. 

--
Mike Murphy  mrm@Mole.ORG  +1 619 598 5874
Better is the enemy of Good