Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:56:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu> To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> Cc: Duncan Orthner <p6orthne@cquest.utoronto.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What CPU_type for Cyrix 686 166+? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970320125402.15475A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970320150159.1658A-100000@chain-work.iafrica.com>
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Duncan Orthner wrote: > > > > > Hi, I tried compiling a kernel w/ "I686_CPU" but it wouldn't boot. > >The only thing I could get it to recognize is a 486! Is there another > >solution to this? > > Nope. You have to live with it as a "486" - but it's still pretty darn > fast! > Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] Yeah, the same problem pops up in all OS's. Intel has some proprietary commands in the Pentium that says 'Hey, I'm a Pentium!!', so a 6x86 (I also have a 6x86 166+) will always readout as a 486. A really really really FAST 486. I think my DOS-based benchmark put mine down as a 486 running at 230-some MHz. :-} MAtt
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