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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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