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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
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Cc: Randy Rowe <rerowe@rerowe.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kernel cpu entries
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On Thu, 2005-Dec-15 12:53:59 -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
>Same here be nice to get a catagoric answer to this.
>
>   Steve
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Randy Rowe" <rerowe@rerowe.com>
>>
>>I have multiple dual and quad Pentium Pro machines running 4.x that have
>>been
>>remarkably stable using the I686_CPU setting (kudos to the developers!!).
>>So I add myself to the list of those that have been removing the
>>I586_CPU option.

UTSL: The i586 optimised routines were only ever enabled if the CPU
was identified as a 586.  And these routines have been disabled since
mid-2001.  See my mail in the "Odd performance problems..."  thread
for more details.

-- 
Peter Jeremy