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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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