From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 08:48:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24164 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:48:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24159 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:48:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com (proot@localhost.iaces.com [127.0.0.1]) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA02423; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:48:05 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <33316A44.794BDF32@iaces.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:48:04 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" Organization: Interprise ACES X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gianmarco Giovannelli CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6x86, Pentium and optimization... References: <3.0.1.32.19970321170239.006c1544@scotty.masternet.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > Hello everyone. > If I use the I486_CPU with a cyrix cpu do I loose the optimization for the > pentium class processor ? > > Why not include a tag like I6x86_CPU ? The code must not so difficult and I > think there is on the Cyrix site.. Well, yes. But it's not a big deal. The Cryix is a pentium class machine, but it doesn't have all of the chipset commands that the Pentium has. It's just really fast and does the same sorts of things. > Just wondering... > > Regards... > Gianmarco ( gmarco@masternet.it ) > "Unix expert since 1997" > > My home page: http://www2.masternet.it/~gmarco > Server page: http://www2.masternet.it/ -- The baby threw up all over my dress and we had to go home first to change. --from "Excuses, Excuses" *the* compendium of excuses by Leigh W. Rutledge