From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 07:36:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA22474 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA22465 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA14276; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:36:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:36:01 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9607241436.AA14276@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brett Glass Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which CPU setting for 486DLC? In-Reply-To: <199607240615.AAA08056@lariat.lariat.org> References: <199607240615.AAA08056@lariat.lariat.org> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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