Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:10:26 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <56631.1046466626@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:06:13 MST." <20030228.140613.25161750.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20030228.140613.25161750.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >Also, 386-core based chips are still in production (or have been in >the last year). It has only been very recently that the embedded >chips have transitioned to 486. Calling them, as others have, 10 >years obsolete is a bit of an overstatement... My main concern would be if the chips have the necessary "umphf" to actually do a real-world job once they're done running all the overhead of 5.0-R. The lack of cmpxchg8 makes the locking horribly expensive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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