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Date:      Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:36:01 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Which CPU setting for 486DLC?
Message-ID:  <9607241436.AA14276@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607240615.AAA08056@lariat.lariat.org>
References:  <199607240615.AAA08056@lariat.lariat.org>

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<<On Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:15:57 -0600 (MDT), Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> said:

> I'm getting ready to put FreeBSD on a system with a 486DLC CPU. I don't
> believe that this little guy has a floating point unit, and am not
> entirely sure if it's really a "486" or a "386 with enhancements" as
> far as the FreeBSD kernel is concerned. So, when I strip down the kernel
> and recompile it for this CPU, which do I specify: 386 or 486?

When the machine boots, it wil be identified as having an
``xxx-class'' CPU, where ``xxx'' is the value you need to specify in
your CPU declaration.

-GAWollman

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