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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:11:35PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >Julian Stacey wrote:
> >> freebsd-hackers@,
> >> Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 processor (not a 486, 586 etc) ?
> >
> >You must config your kernel with a CPU type of 386, so that it
> >will not atttempt to use 486-specific instructions, and so it
> >will emulate kernel write faulting, since the 386 does not do
> >this correctly.
> 
> The kernel must have had I386_CPU because otherwise it would it would
> panic via panicifcpuunsupported() from cpu_startup().

Ah, you're right.  I was looking for horses, when I should have
been looking for zebras.  8-).

-- Terry