Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:21:37 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <20001201152137.K1474@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001130214745.E28757@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:47:45PM -0600 References: <11485.974210886@critter> <20001201102915.G1474@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20001130214745.E28757@peorth.iteration.net>
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On 2000-Nov-30 21:47:45 -0600, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:29:15AM +1100, Peter Jeremy scribbled: >| On 2000-Nov-14 15:08:06 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: >| >Has anybody run a 486 or 386 under current recently ? >| >| X on a PRE_SMPNG 486 is painful - mouse movements no longer make >| the X pointer move in real time. I haven't noticed the seeding >| issue (probably just luck). > >PRE_SMPNG does not have the /dev/random seeding issue. > >You actually expected X to run well on a 486? :-) It used to run reasonably well (ignoring hogs like Netscape) before Yarrow was added. I'm hoping that once yarrow is threaded performance will return to a usable level. Keep in mind that a 486 is relatively powerful compared to the available systems when X was designed. >I do not really think the latest XFree86 versions were designed >with running 386/486 in mind. 386/486 is still a market, but >not many people try to build an embedded system with a full X >and tools. I'm running XFree86 3.x, rather than 4.x. I agree that X is unlikely in most embedded applications, but blocking in the kernel for an extended period is likely to be equally unacceptable. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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