From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 19 18:23:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA00202 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 18:23:49 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA00195 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 18:23:47 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id RAA00153 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 17:13:40 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA09410; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:43:31 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507200013.JAA09410@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.x may not run on Cyrix 486DL To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:43:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: john@starfire.mn.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9507191721.AA28292@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 19, 95 11:20:59 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 728 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > The correct behaviour would probably be to disable the cache on Cyrix > chips because they do not honor the non-cacheable bit. Unless someone can overcorrect me, I'd ask that this be read as "some" Cyrix chips; certainly their DX40 and DX2/66 parts _appear_ to behave appropriately. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[