Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:58:19 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Cyrix chip] panic in FreeBSD-STABLE kernel.. Message-ID: <9605301458.AA02191@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605292028.OAA19802@tombstone.sunrem.com> References: <199605292028.OAA19802@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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<<On Wed, 29 May 1996 14:28:58 -0600, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> said: > I put back in the i486_CPU line and it works fine, seems the Cyrix reports > itself as a 486 (I now recall a conversation in respect to this already). > What is involved in the 586 support? Am I loosing on anything significant > by registering it as a 486? How would I go about getting it to register > as a 586 (or even better a 686) Get Cyrix to implement all the features that differentiate 586en from 486en. Time Stamp Counter, performance monitoring, machine-specific registers, machine-check exception, VM extensions, page size extensions, etc. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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