Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:20:24 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Michael Elbel <mwe@consol.de> Subject: Re: Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ? Message-ID: <20030411072023.GA47320@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3E95EC17.7746B6D9@mindspring.com> References: <200304101843.h3AIh4C65481@flip.jhs.private> <3E95EC17.7746B6D9@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:11:35PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >Julian Stacey wrote: >> freebsd-hackers@, >> Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 processor (not a 486, 586 etc) ? > >You must config your kernel with a CPU type of 386, so that it >will not atttempt to use 486-specific instructions, and so it >will emulate kernel write faulting, since the 386 does not do >this correctly. The kernel must have had I386_CPU because otherwise it would it would panic via panicifcpuunsupported() from cpu_startup(). Peter
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